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“The history of science shows that the progress of science has constantly been hampered by the tyrannical influence of certain conceptions that finally came to be considered as dogma. For this reason, it is proper to submit periodically to a very searching examination, principles that we have come to assume without any more discussion.”

Reason Shows Certain Principles Progress Influence Assuming Discussion Conception Submit Dogma Examination History Of Science

Author:Louis de Broglie

“An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.”

Made Whole Actors Roles Movement Train Observation Conception Bus Garments Railroads

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?”

Wells Matter Sin Becoming Holy God Love Conception Becoming More Amiable Oh Well Holy God

Book:Love: A Holy Command

Source: Love: A Holy Command

“No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.”

Art Art Is Conception Acceptable

Author:Jane Alexander

“It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.”

Humans Natural Careers Study Achievement Historical Unity Conception Natural Science Greatest Achievement

Author:James Henry Breasted

“That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.”

Teacher Conception Observers

Author:Peter Bichsel

“Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.”

Mind Reason Light Certain Pure Intuition Arise Conception Deductions

Author:Rene Descartes

“A mind that is very selective to forms... is apt to use its images metaphorically, to exploit their possible significance for the conception of remote or intangible ideas.”

Mind Ideas Use Form Significance Conception Exploits Selective Intangible

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.”

Persons Stills Wisdom Fall Evil Darkness Hell Wise Empty Deeds Karma Endless Commit Release Emptiness Sinner Conception No Hope Bad Karma

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Our schools offer no conception of the scientific process of discovery. They do not encourage creative thought, in fact, they stifle it through too much rigidity in teaching. If we set out to give as little help as possible to originality in science, we could hardly devise a better plan than our education system. Youngsters ought to be told what is unknown about ourselves and our universe as well as what is known.”

“To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.”

Problem Spiritual Values Violence Ideals Injustice Conception Consumption Consumerism Overconsumption Spiritual Values Downgrading

Author:Jacques Ellul

“I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour!”

Want Able Wonder Size Heavenly Conception I Want You Magnificence Colossal Splendour

Author:David Berg

“The scientist is not much given to talking of the riddle of the universe. "Riddle" is not a scientific term. The conception of a riddle is "something which can he solved." And hence the scientist does not use that popular phrase. We don't know the why of anything. On that matter we are no further advanced than was the cavedweller. The scientist is contented if he can contribute something toward the knowledge of what is and how it is.”

Ifs Knows Doe Matter Use Science Universe Given Term Talking Knowledge Scientist Phrases Conception Riddle

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Ifs Karma Conception Farmers Reap

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We need to review our policies as it applies to urban cities - You see, I'm losing either of them, but especially cities like Baltimore, we need to review them and I think we should come with no pre conception.”

Thinking Needs Should Cities Policy Losing Conception Reviews Urban Baltimore

Author:Julie Roginsky

“In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.”

Has Beens Art Book Reason Written Mountain Definitions Spite Conception Precise

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.”

Kind Long Problem Painting Argument Unity Conception Propositions Unfolding

Book:Churchill on men and events: a selection from

Source: Churchill on men and events: a selection from

“Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.”

Experience Blind Conception Void

Author:Albert Einstein

“The more backwoodish a social group, juvenile or adult, the stricter its conception of the normal, and the readier it will ridicule any departure from it.”

Social Groups Society Normal Adults Conception Ridicule Departure Juvenile Social Groups

Book:The Act of Creation

Source: The Act of Creation

“Colour could give rise to sensations which would interfere with our conception of space.”

Giving Space Colour Sensations Conception Interfere

Author:Georges Braque

“Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized.”

Humans Littles Government Human Beings Understood Institutions Good Things Complexes Granted Complexity Assumption Activist Conception Fragile Lacking Intricate Implicit Complex Systems

Book:Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

Source: Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays

“Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along.”

Humans Action Political Powerful Roles Society Advice Ears Currents Conception Misconception Whispering Contributing Human Actions Words Of Advice

Book:A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

Source: A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles

“One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.”

Science Realizing Numbers Successful Stupid Scientist Dull Conception Narrow-minded Narrow Minds

Author:Konrad Lorenz

“No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.”

Way May Long Doe Ends Law Enjoy Fit Pursue Welfare Conception Accord

Book:Kant: Political Writings

Source: Kant: Political Writings

“Music comes from the heart and returns to the heart... music is spontaneous, impulsive expression... its range is without limit... music is forever growing... music can be one element to help us build a new conception of life in which the madness and cruelty of wars will be replaced by a simple understanding of the brotherhood of man.”

“The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.”

Art Strong Experience Bases Conception Grandeur Future Work

Author:Paul Cezanne

“The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception, and, except under very special circumstances, it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.”

Principles Special Circumstances Commitment Conception Immoral Obsolete Neutrality

Author:John Foster Dulles

“I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.”

May Long Has Beens Easy Doors Fronts Long Time Draws Standing Window Rhythm Shock Conception Elbows Counterparts Begin Again Front Doors

Author:Sean William Scott

“One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.”

“Man's skull represents the same infinity for the movement of conceptions. It is equal to the universe, for in it is contained all that sees in it.”

Men Universe Movement Equal Conception Infinity Skulls

Author:Kazimir Malevich

“Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.”

Inspiration Conditions Divine Demand Intellect Active Enthusiasm Excellent Conception Cooperation Marvelous

Author:Giorgio Vasari

“The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.”

People Nations Ability Sky Greatness Spring Lifts Conception Abiding Majestic Absorption

Author:Alexander Crummell

“Two common conceptions with regard to advertising which are held by a considerable number of people are that enormously large sums of money are expended for it, and that much of this expenditure is an economic waste.”

People Two Common Numbers Economic Waste Regard Advertising Conception Expenditures

Author:Daniel Starch

“The beauties of conception are always superior to those of expression.”

Expression Superiors Conception

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.”

Needs Different Happiness Circumstances Endure Genuine Dependent Conception

Author:Richard Davidson

“As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.”

Art Grows Realizing Perfect Events Art Is Aging Conception Fluid

Author:Robert Genn

“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”

Source: Silent Spring

“In our English popular religion the common conception of a future state of bliss is that of ... a kind of perfected middle-class home, with labour ended, the table spread, goodness all around, the lost ones restored, hymnody incessant.”

Kind States Home Lost Common Class Middle Goodness England Tables Spread Bliss Middle Class Labour Conception Insulting Incessant Lost Ones

Book:Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

Source: Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible

“I had no more conception of what it meant to be a forester than the man in the moon....But at least a forester worked in the woods and with the woods - and I loved the woods and everything about them....My Father's suggestion settled the question in favor of forestry.”

Men Father He Man Moon Woods Favors Meant To Be Conception Suggestions Man In The Moon

Author:Gifford Pinchot

“Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture room or read from the book. See, and then reason and compare and control. But see first.”

Firsts Book Reason Rooms Heard Disease Medicine Compare Conception Classroom Lectures Lecturing Practice Of Medicine

Author:William Osler

“...the physicist cannot simply surrender to the philosopher the critical contemplation of the theoretical foundations; for, he himself knows best, and feels more surely where the shoe pinches...Physical conceptions are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.”

“When the conception of internal form is governed by edge, color appears to remain on or above the surface. I think, on the contrary, of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on, the surface.”

Thinking Form Color Edges Surface Contrary Internals Conception

Author:Jules Olitski

“It is essential that the revelation we receive, the conception of an image which embraces a certain thing, which has no sense in itself, which has no subject, which means 'absolutely nothing' from the logical point of view.. ..should speak so strongly in us, evoke such agony or joy, that we feel compelled to paint.”

Feels Should Mean Desire Certain Speak Views Subjects Essentials Embrace Paint Point Of View Revelations Logical Conception Compelled Absolutely Nothing

Author:Giorgio de Chirico

“A war against terrorism is an impracticable conception if it means fighting terrorism with terrorism.”

Ifs Mean War Fighting Terrorism Conception Fighting Terrorism

Book:Where There's a Will

Source: Where There's a Will

“The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.”

Believe Humans Stills States Play Stories Fall Sex Sin Views Human Nature Originals Profound Innocence Conception Sinfulness

Author:E. M. Forster

“We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.”

Needs War Real Hands Might Opportunity Party Ideals Hunger Desperate Sickness Conception Dread Enslavement

Author:C. S. Lewis

“It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.”

Men Humanity Dies Girl Hours Four Week Husband Kissing Six Twenties Males Hopeless One Man Conception Lightning Cheerful Vivid Blast Drunkards Delirium Whisky Anathema Delirium Tremens

Book:Septimus

Source: Septimus

“The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.”

Humans Ideas Use Law Common Air Communication Productions Conception Free Speech Freedom Of Speech Rule Of Law

Author:Louis D. Brandeis

“I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be thrilled, to have our hands filled for deeds of benevolence and love. The happiest moments may be the busiest moments.”

Heart May Soul Moments Hands Left Christ Emotion Ready Highest And Love Filled Deeds Intellect Conception Rejoice Reign Benevolence

Author:Matthew Simpson

“It would be a narrow conception of jurisprudence to confine the notion of "laws" to what is found written on the statute books, and to disregard the gloss which life has written upon it.”

Book Would Be Law Found Written Notion Conception Disregard Statutes Gloss Jurisprudence

Author:Felix Frankfurter

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