Concepts Quotes

541 Concepts quotes by 418 unique authors

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those… — Charles Mingus
Dogmatism grew from the soil of simplistic and frequently wrong concepts. Dogmatism is like a ship that has run aground: the waves run, the ship… — Dmitri Volkogonov
To tell you the truth, I am rather perplexed by the concept of 'art'. What one person considers to be 'art' is often not 'art'… — M.C. Escher
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth.… — Steven Biko
A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the… — Stephen Toulmin
The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography. — Helmut Newton
Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than… — John Welwood
Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing… — Anton Chekhov
Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. — Joseph Murphy
Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept… — Richard Lewontin
In a world where concepts are so often deployed in an ad hoc fashion, half explored before being displaced by others, it is immensely refreshing… — Unknown Author
We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good… — Abraham Kaplan
After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense,… — Jeremy Silman
I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made… — Roger Penrose
For the most part, it is true, ordinary men and women regard mathematics with energetic distaste, counting its concepts as rhapsodic as cauliflower. This is… — David Berlinski
To be sure, mathematics can be extended to any branch of knowledge, including economics, provided the concepts are so clearly defined as to permit accurate… — James R Newman
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements… — Hermann Weyl
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and… — Freeman Dyson
How then shall mathematical concepts be judged? They shall not be judged. Mathematics is the supreme arbiter. From its decisions there is no appeal. We… — Unknown Author

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