Concepts Quotes

541 Concepts quotes by 418 unique authors

No-one gets an iron-clad guarantee of success. Certainly, factors like opportunity, luck and timing are important. But the backbone of success is usually found in… — Mia Hamm
Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts… — James Bryant Conant
We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages… — Jacob Bronowski
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The reason why new concepts in any branch of science are hard to grasp is always the same; contemporary scientists try to picture the new… — Freeman Dyson
I'd like to say a few words about one of the most popular concepts in the modern education--show and tell. Show and Tell is a… — Robert Orben
All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link… — Albert Einstein
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his… — Muhammad Asad
You can't drop concepts. You can only shine a little flashlight on them as you do inquiry, an you see that what you thought was… — Byron Katie
What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity… — Albert Einstein
I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science,… — Max Born
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is… — Niels Bohr
It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence… — Albert Einstein
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the… — Immanuel Kant
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can… — Immanuel Kant
The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and,… — Albert Einstein
The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way… — Fidel Castro
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if… — Paul Dirac
Standard mathematics has recently been rendered obsolete by the discovery that for years we have been writing the numeral five backward. This has led to… — Woody Allen
We can remove poverty from the surface of the earth only if we can redesign our institutions - like the banking institutions, and other institutions;… — Muhammad Yunus
Mathematics is the tool specially suited for dealing with abstract concepts of any kind and there is no limit to its power in this field. — Paul Dirac
Liberalism and Western-style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today, these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science. — Stephen Jay Gould
The view of the cross as the sacrifice for the sins of the world is a barbarian idea based on primitive concepts of God and… — John Shelby Spong

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