Concept Quotes

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Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part of the holiday. — Roger Bannister
Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. — Eric Hoffer
I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. If… — Rick Barry
I served for 42 years on the board of trustees of the largest Presbyterian seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and we had brilliant people - teachers… — John Templeton
...Making people get over the concept that they've got the total proof. To get them to feel, 'Gee, I want to learn more. I want… — John Templeton
Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of… — John Templeton
It is an old saying, abundantly justified, that where sciences meet there growth occurs. It is true moreover to say that in scientific borderlands not… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not… — Jose Arguelles
[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness. — Eugene Wigner
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the… — Eugene Wigner
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in… — Charles Thom
A concept is stronger than a fact. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct… — Alexandre Koyre
The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things… — Frank Watson Dyson
...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of… — Paul Halmos
Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept. — John Marburger
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the… — Douglas J. Futuyma
Many prominent scientists - including Darwin, Einstein, and Planck - have considered the concept of God very seriously. What are your thoughts on the concept… — Christian B. Anfinsen
I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the… — Joschka Fischer
The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of… — Robert Monroe

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