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