Concepts Quote by Hans Kramers

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

— E. O. Wilson

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are…

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.

— Albert Einstein

Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept…

— Albert Einstein

Our task is not to penetrate the essence of things, the meaning of which we do not know anyway, but rather to develop concepts…

— Niels Bohr

The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent…

— William Cecil Dampier

Concepts are mental images.

— Paul Virilio

For the limits to which our thoughts are confind, are small in respect of the vast extent of Nature itself; some parts of it…

— Robert Hooke

Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus…

— George Lakoff

Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept…

— Gaston Bachelard

What appear to be the most valuable aspects of the theoretical physics we have are the mathematical descriptions which enable us to predict events.…

— Celia Green