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Conceptual Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- ...our intellectual powers are rather geared to master static relations and that our powers to visualize processes evolving in time are relatively poorly developed. For…
- Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am terribly dogmatical about [the goto statement]. I have the uncomfortable feeling that others are…
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- There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content. — Kevin Bacon
- Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the… — Bede Griffiths
- Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening… — Eckhart Tolle
- A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a conceptual scheme… — James Bryant Conant
- Neo-Darwinian language and conceptual structure itself ensures scientific failure: Major questions posed by zoologists cannot be answered from inside the neo-Darwinian straitjacket.… — Lynn Margulis
- One major problem with any science is that people who don't know the conceptual history of their field go round re-inventing the… — Unknown Author
- What I want to express is a feeling-various emotions that I am experiencing at the time-whether it is anger or hope or… — Rei Kawakubo
- I would welcome the passing of the idea of philosophy as defined by a method of conceptual analysis. But that is not… — Robert Adams
- I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I… — Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Life is worthy of the name only when it reflects Reality in action. No university will teach you how to live so… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
- True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
- The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism.… — Camille Paglia