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Source: The Science of Being Great: Personal Self-Help Book of Wallace D. Wattles (Unabridged): From one of The New Thought pioneers, author of The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, How to Get What You Want, Hellfire Harrison, How to Promote Yourself and A New Christ

“For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry; but they do not rank as genuine scientific men. The genuine scientific chemist cares just as much to learn about erbium-the extreme rarity of which renders it commercially unimportant-as he does about iron. He is more eager to learn about erbium if the knowledge of it would do more to complete his conception of the Periodic Law, which expresses the mutual relations of the elements.”

Ifs Men Doe Facts Care Law Science Numbers Study Example Elements Relation Extremes Genuine Iron Mutual Conception Chemistry Unimportant Chemist Rarity

Author:Charles Sanders Peirce

“Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender to the will of God. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.”

“Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed prematurely from a knowledge of only certain parts of the world, has undergone a decisive transformation. This conception, however, is always decisive for the future course of research.”

Source: Philosophical problems of quantum physics

“The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.”

Reality Science Knowledge Behavior Mathematics Objectives Clarity Conception Particles Transparent Objective Reality

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.”

Wanted Science Time Waiting Knowledge Lists Familiar Conception Woven Electrons

Book:The nature of the physical world

Source: The nature of the physical world

“All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected.”

May Ideas Real Use Truth Asks Voice Truth Is Essentials Red Relation Tables Musical Active Practicals Vain Tone Chairs Conception Meaningless Yellow Rejected Cognition

Author:G. Stanley Hall

“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. What are now working conceptions, employed as a matter of course because they have withstood the tests of experiment and have emerged triumphant, were once speculative hypotheses.”

Matter Science Courses Imagination Tests Experiments Conception Employed Hypothesis Triumphant Audacity Advances In Science

Book:James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience

“If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.”

Ifs Men Needs Different Soul Done Might Would Be Together Political Order Passion Social Known Communication Needed Speech Tongue Significant Sufficient One Man Conception Solitary

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“In this communication I wish first to show in the simplest case of the hydrogen atom (nonrelativistic and undistorted) that the usual rates for quantization can be replaced by another requirement, in which mention of "whole numbers" no longer occurs. Instead the integers occur in the same natural way as the integers specifying the number of nodes in a vibrating string. The new conception can be generalized, and I believe it touches the deepest meaning of the quantum rules.”

“A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that he created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that he required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of his laws.”

Believe Self Action Form Law Written Atheism Creation Divine Development Capable Originals Noble Conception Void Self Development Deities Agnosticism

Book:On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

“They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.”

Source: Twelve Years a Slave

“[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men communicate, perpetuate, and develop their knowledge about and attitudes toward life.”

Men Mean Form Culture Attitude Patterns Communicate Symbols Conception Symbolic

Book:The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

Source: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays

“Never tire of firmly speaking out in defense of life from its conception and do not be deterred from the commitment to defend the dignity of every human person with courageous determination. Christ is with you: be not afraid!”

Humans Persons Christ Commitment Determination Dignity Defense Abortion Courageous Conception Not Afraid Tire Speaking Out

Author:Pope John Paul II

“The Universal mind is not only intelligence, but it is substance, and this substance is the attractive force which brings electrons together by the law of attraction so they form atoms; the atoms in turn are brought together by the same law and form molecules; molecules take objective forms and so we find that the law is the creative force behind every manifestation, not only of atoms, but of worlds, of the universe, of everything of which the imagination can form any conception.”

Source: The New Master Key System

“The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.”

Failing Balls Court Bounds Primaries Borders Tennis Neighborhood Conception

Author:Elliott Chaze

“The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the Metaphysical, or abstract; and the Scientific, or positive.”

Knows Different Law Science Three Knowledge Conditions Abstract Branches Conception Metaphysical Theoretical Theological

Book:Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings

Source: Auguste Comte and Positivism: The Essential Writings

“The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its causes, and its economy consists in producing a great number of phenomena, often very complicated, by means of a small number of general laws.”

Mean Law Science Causes Nature Simple Numbers Economy Effects Simplicity Complicated Conception Small Numbers

Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace

“The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.”

Men Has Beens Matter Character Moving Grows Virtue Honesty He Man Judging Integrity Good Man Conception Severe Humane Unworthy Bad Man Judging Others

Book:Reconstruction in Philosophy

Source: Reconstruction in Philosophy

“Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.”

People Knows Giving Years Believe Littles Today Growth Pleasure Opinion Amount Integrity Ten Highest Years Ago Delight Being True Conception Immense Consistency Certificates

Book:Tributes and miscellany

Source: Tributes and miscellany

“Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.”

Fall Emotion Creation Shadow Philosophical Response Conception Hollow Man

Book:Collected Poems 1909-1962

Source: Collected Poems 1909-1962

“The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.”

World Done Character Shows Action Views Moral Psychology Ethics Consequence Luck Conception Inclusion Paradoxical Acknowledgement

Book:Mortal Questions

Source: Mortal Questions

“The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.”

“This work should commence with the conception of man, and should describe the nature of the womb, and how the child inhabits it, and in what stage it dwells there, and the manner of its quickening and feeding, and its growth, and what interval there is between one stage of growth and another, and what thing drives it forth from the body of the mother, and for what reason it sometimes emerges from the belly of its mother before the due time.”

Men Should Children Sometimes Reason Body Mother Growth Stage He Man Dues Conception Feeding Belly Womb Intervals Quickening Due Time

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The dream reveals the reality which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life-the terror of art.”

Art Dream Reality Behinds Horror Terror Conception Halloween Lag

Book:The Metamorphosis

Source: The Metamorphosis

“Man is appealed to be guided in his acts, not merely by love, which is always personal, or at best tribal, but by his perception of his oneness with each human being. In the practice of mutual aid, which we can re-trace to the earliest beginnings of evolution, we thus find the positive and undoubted origin of our ethical conceptions; and we can affirm that in the ethical progress of man, mutual support- not mutual struggle- has had the leading part.”

Men Humans Human Beings Practice Support Struggle Progress Evolution Perception Ethics Aids Oneness Mutual Ethical Conception Mutual Aid Mutual Support

Book:Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

Source: Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution

“The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says "yes" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says "Maybe," and in the great majority of cases simply "No." If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter "Maybe," and if it does not agree it means "No." Probably every theory will some day experience its "No" - most theories, soon after conception.”

Ifs Mean Doe Cases Judging Theory Agree Majority Experiments Memorable Latter Friendly Working It Conception Envied Theorists

Book:Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century

“Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought - even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.”

Writing Wells War Form Novel Written Expression Expectations Response Observation Conception Conform

Author:Geoff Dyer

“I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.”

Source: Edward Weston on photography

“Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all things of the earth. It embodies the hopes and dreams of those who have gone before, including the spirit world; it is so fragile it can be destroyed by a sound or thought. It may be infinitesimally small or encompass the universe itself. It comes in a swift conception wherever nature has not been disturbed.”

Source: Reflections from the North Country

“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.”

Challenges Progress Institutions Currents Conception Censorship Censoring Book Banning Progress In Life Supplanting

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I met many Russians over the years who were convinced my brothers and I were a cabal, pulling strings behind the scenes to shape American policy. The Soviets had no conception of how a pluralistic democracy works and believed elected officials, up to and including the president of the United States, were only figureheads acting out the roles dictated to them by the real "powers that be" - in this case, my family.”