Conception Quote by Louis Agassiz

A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the…

— Joshua Reynolds

Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than…

— Nikola Tesla

We become extraordinary when we realize how extraordinary our existence is.

— Anis Mojgani

Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

— Milan Kundera

“One realizes that everything about the world that seems so unexceptional and drearily predictable is in fact charged with an immense and imponderable mystery.…

— David Bentley Hart

The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.

— Raymond Williams

“In order to have original, uncommon, and perhaps even immortal thoughts, it is enough to estrange oneself so fully from the world of things…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“In its complexity and sensuality, nature invites exploration, direct contact, and experience. But it also inspires a sense of awe, a glimpse of what…

— Kim John Payne

“Earth, stars, and the vastness of space; yesterday, today and tomorrow; and the endlessly increasing knowledge of the relation of forces, present an illimitable…

— John A. Widtsoe

Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary.

— C. S. Lewis

“extreme conceptions arise with the conception of inherently existent phenomena. it has been thoroughly analyzed how phenomena do not inherently exist; when the conception…

— chandrakirti

“I suspect there is something in our very mode of thought which makes it inevitable that we should always be baffled by actual existence,…

— C.S. Lewis