Concepts Quote by Susanne Katherina Langer

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

Curiously, a principle affects your life whether you are aware of it or not. For instance, the principle of gravity was working long before…

— Andy Andrews

The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“We have developed a more logical and discursive mode of thought. Instead of looking at a physical phenomena imaginatively, we strip an object of…

— Karen Armstrong

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to…

— Edward Tufte

[Quantity is the fundamental feature of things,] the 'primarium accidens substantiae,' ...prior to the other categories.

— Johannes Kepler

The principle is so perfectly general that no particular application of it is possible.

— George Polya

To make use of your mind to think conceptually is to leave substance and attach yourself to form

— Huangbo Xiyun

My object has been, first to discover correct principles and then to suggest their practical development.

— James Prescott Joule

“It is a misleading tendency of our intellect to conceive things as if they were immutable and constant. It often leaves changing and concrete…

— Kaiten Nukariya

If you want to understand the nature of something, to find out the truth, that is one thing. If you want to play semantics,…

— Patricia Churchland

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— Jean Piaget