“I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.” PeopleWorldFeelsTryingTwoGodAbleChristianThreeLanguageHeavenReligiousMy OwnConceptsAccountsCurrentsLimitationDimensionsAppropriateDescriptionVocabularyNear DeathPortrayalNear Death Experience Author:Mary C. Neal
“The border between music and noise is always culturally defined—which implies that, even within a single society, this border does not always pass through the same place; in short, there is rarely a consensus.... By all accounts there is no single and intercultural universal concept defining what music might be” DoeMightConceptsUniversalAccountsNoiseDefinedBordersConsensusDefiningIntercultural Author:Jean-Jacques Nattiez
“God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an inadequate hypothesis. To a great many people, including myself, this realization is a great relief, both intellectually and morally. It frees us to explore the real phenomena for which the God hypothesis seeks to account, to define them more accurately, and to work for a more satisfying set of concepts.” PeopleHumansRealGodReligiousDestinyProveConceptsAccountsIncludingRealizationGreat MenReliefSatisfyingHypothesisInadequate Author:Julian Huxley
“Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits.... Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence ... is a task for the future.” WorldTimeBitsExistenceInformationConceptsIdealsTasksConnectionsAccountsObstaclesPhysicsResistanceExplainingContinuumDiscrete Author:John Archibald Wheeler
“Science emerges from the other progressive activities of man to the extent that new concepts arise from experiments and observations, and that the new concepts in turn lead to further experiments and observations.” MenScienceTurnsActivityConceptsAccountsExperimentsAriseObservationProgressive Author:James Bryant Conant
“I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am convinced that theoretical physics is actual philosophy. It has revolutionized fundamental concepts, e.g., about space and time (relativity), about causality (quantum theory), and about substance and matter (atomistics), and it has taught us new methods of thinking (complementarity) which are applicable far beyond physics.” ThinkingGivingIdeasMatterPhilosophyFeelingsAgeScienceFoundUnderstandingSpaceKnowledgeProgressTaughtTheoryConceptsAccountsGive MeMethodFundamentalsPhilosopherDeeperConvincedPhysicsSubstanceSteadyQuantumTime And SpaceTheoreticalRelativityTaught UsIlluminatingQuantum TheoryCausalityKnowledge And UnderstandingTheoretical PhysicsSteady Progress Author:Max Born
“Indeed, I suspect that the changes that have taken place during the last century in the average man's fundamental beliefs, in his philosophy, in his conception of religion, in his whole world outlook, are greater than the changes that occurred during the preceding four thousand years all put together.” MenWorldYearsHumansPhilosophyWholeDreamTogetherLastsScienceBeliefHistoryTakenGreaterFourCenturyThousandConceptsAccountsFundamentalsAverageWhole WorldHuman LifeMy TimeSuspectsApplicationThousand YearsOutlookAverage Man Author:Robert Andrews Millikan
“The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.” HandsScienceAchievementConceptsConnectionsAccountsRelationAimPrimariesMinimumComprehensionTotalityEmploying Author:Albert Einstein
“The solutions put forth by imperialism are the quintessence of simplicity...When they speak of the problems of population and birth, they are in no way moved by concepts related to the interests of the family or of society...Just when science and technology are making incredible advances in all fields, they resort to technology to suppress revolutions and ask the help of science to prevent population growth. In short, the peoples are not to make revolutions, and women are not to give birth. This sums up the philosophy of imperialism.” WayGivingPhilosophyHelpingProblemScienceAsksSpeakGrowthInterestTechnologyFieldsRevolutionBirthSolutionsConceptsAccountsMovedIncrediblesSimplicityPopulationRelatedImperialismResortsScience And TechnologyPopulation GrowthQuintessence Author:Fidel Castro
“What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data.” ScienceLanguageUnderstandingConceptsAccountsRelationRegardStriveClarityDataMutualStrifeSensoryCorrespondence Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words
“The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.” MaySometimesScienceUniverseNatureNaturalResultsProgressConceptsAspectAccountsFamiliarObservationFormerEvolveUnexpectedLatterExploration Author:Tsung-Dao Lee
“Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.” LifeIdeasScienceResultsDoubtConceptsSeasonsAccountsMathematicsFactorsMathematicalPlusFormulasThrowingUnitsHypothesisInheritanceCornLiving ThingsSkepticalSelectedHybridMinusHypotheticalHarper Author:Charles Thom