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Conceptions Quotes by William James
- In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at…
- Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling…
- So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or…
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- Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind. — Albert Einstein
- There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions… — Arthur Eddington
- If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would… — Thomas Aquinas
- It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by… — Friedrich August von Hayek
- It is a sad thing to begin life with low conceptions of it. It may not be possible for a young man… — Thornton T. Munger
- The new cosmic story emerging into human awareness overwhelms all previous conceptions of the universe for the simple reason that it draws… — Brian Swimme
- Throughout history the world has been laid waste to ensure the triumph of conceptions that are now as dead as the men… — Henry de Montherlant
- Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all… — Giorgio Vasari