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

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