"Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of……" — Anthony Eden

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• I am the maker of my own fortune, and Oh! that I could make that of my Red People, and… — Tecumseh
• In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate… — William James
• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man. — Karl Pearson
• In order that the facts obtained by observation and experiment may be capable of being used in furtherance of our… — William Whewell
• What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the… — Marc Chagall
• There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No… — Arthur Eddington
• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as… — John Dewey
• If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them… — Thomas Aquinas
• [Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms,… — Clifford Geertz
• The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions:… — Auguste Comte
• The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
• Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best… — Peter Kropotkin

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