Our Conceptions Quotes
9 quotes by 9 authors
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The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Our conceptions of the world affect our perceptions of the world which, in turn, condition the way we subsequently conceive the world.
— Stephen Batchelor
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The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Philosophy itself cannot but benefit from our disputes, for if our conceptions prove true, new achievements will be made; if false, their refutation will further…
— Galileo Galilei
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Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all…
— Blaise Pascal
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Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically,…
— Willard Van Orman Quine
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Perhaps the immobility of the things that surround us is forced upon them by our conviction that they are themselves, and not anything else, and…
— Marcel Proust
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The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our…
— Nikola Tesla
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For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it are…
— Robert Hooke
Who Wrote These Our Conceptions Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 9 Our Conceptions Quotes as follows: