Conceivable Quotes

122 quotes by 111 authors

The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had… — Cyrano de Bergerac
Because the idea of zombies seems to make sense, and seems to, in a certain sense, be possible, I think one can use that to… — David Chalmers
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion… — Queen Noor of Jordan
Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person.… — Hale Irwin
I remember watching Mel Gibson on some show once, and he was being asked about his belief in the afterlife. Gibson said: 'Well, I can't… — Hugh Laurie
For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order… — Wernher von Braun
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result… — Karl Popper
All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses… — G. Stanley Hall
Creation,' in the ordinary sense of the word, is perfectly conceivable. I find no difficulty in conceiving that, at some former period, this universe was… — Thomas Huxley
The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with… — Emile Borel
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought… — George Orwell
The contemporary artist...is not bound to a fully conceived, previsioned end. His mind is kept alert to in-process discovery and a working rapport is established… — Jerry Uelsmann
One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some… — Winston Churchill
They went down the list of every known charge conceivable to man - rackeering, skimming, kickback, ticket scalping. fixing fights, preordaining fights, vitaiting officials, corrupting… — Don King
Through the last few decades it [the art object] has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the… — Ashley Bickerton
My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former… — William Banting
Photographs have the kind of authority over imagination to-day, which the printed word had yesterday, and the spoken word before that. They seem utterly real.… — Walter Lippmann
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and… — William A. Dembski

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