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“The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.”

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Book:The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties

Source: The electron, its isolation and measurement ant the determination of some of its properties

“I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.”

Ifs Should Persons Mouths Awful Journalist Interviews Preconceptions

Author:Isabel Allende

“To know ahead of time what you're looking for means you're then only photographing your own preconceptions, which is very limiting, and often false.”

Knows Mean Photography Photographer Preconceptions Ahead Of Time

Book:Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress

Source: Dorothea Lange: Farm Security Administration photographs, 1935-1939 : from the Library of Congress

“It's about reacting to what you see, hopefully without preconception. You can find pictures anywhere. It's simply a matter of noticing things and organising them. You just have to care about what's around you and have a concern with humanity and the human comedy.”

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Author:Elliott Erwitt

“I don't have anything to say in any picture. My only interest in photography is to see what something looks like as a photograph. I have no preconceptions.”

Looks Interest Photography Photographer Photograph Preconceptions

Author:Garry Winogrand

“Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems to say something more: Stripping off not caution but the stale, crusty garments of preconception, peeling sensibly down to raw, new nakedness, is the only way to enter and be properly embraced by the world.”

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Author:Janet Lembke

“People have preconceptions about women of a certain age.”

People Age Certain Preconceptions

Author:Lesley Nicol

“With any work worth its salt, you have to trust the author enough to take its measure. And if you apply too many preconceptions, you are not taking its measure.”

Ifs Enough Trust Salt Worth It Preconceptions

Author:Art Spiegelman

“At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.”

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Book:Arthur Frommer's New World of Travel

Source: Arthur Frommer's New World of Travel

“The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.”

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Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“Staying requires being curious about who you actually are when you don't take yourself to be a collection of memories.When you don't infer your existence from replaying what happened to you, when you don't take yourself to be the girl your mother/father/brother/teacher/lover didn't see or adore. When you sense yourself directly, immediately, right now, without preconception, who are you?”

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Book:Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

Source: Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything

“The power of mistakes enables us to reframe creative blocks and turn them around...The troublesome parts of our work, the parts that are most baffling and frustrating, are in fact the growing edges. We see these opportunities the instant we drop our preconceptions and our self-importance.”

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Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“Nothing you become will disappoint me; I have no preconception that I'd like to see you be or do. I have no desire to forsee you, only to discover you. You can't disappoint me.”

Desire Over You Unconditional Love Unconditional Disappoint Preconceptions

Author:Mary Donnelly-Haskell

“Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.”

Motivational Science Motivation Skepticism Abyss Open Minded Open Mindedness Preconceptions Scientific Truth Preconceived Notions Questioning Beliefs

Book:The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley

“We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception.”

World Made Whole Process Imagine Perception Preconceptions

Book:Public Opinion

Source: Public Opinion

“But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.”

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Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“Like this gas tank, you are overflowing with preconceptions, full of useless knowledge. You hold many facts and opinions, yet know little of yourself. Before you can learn, you'll have to first empty your tank.”

Knows Firsts Littles Facts Opinion Empty Useless Gas Tanks Preconceptions Useless Knowledge

Book:Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.”

Want Mind Can Do Music Is Concepts Harmony Preconceptions Do Whatever You Want Free Your Mind Daft Punk

Author:Giorgio Moroder

“I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.”

Way Want Mean Self Objects Logical Quantity Preconceptions

Author:Eva Hesse

“We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions.”

Destruction Various Doomed Preconceptions

Book:Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management : Special 100th Birthday Edition: Special 100th Birthday Edition

Source: Taiichi Ohnos Workplace Management : Special 100th Birthday Edition: Special 100th Birthday Edition

“Once you embark on a road of imagination and creating, all bets are off. All preconceptions about what you must do, make, think, assume, and believe are yesterday’s news.”

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Author:Jon Rappoport

“I had often thought that if I managed to live through the war I wouldn't expect too much of life. How could one resent disappointment in love if life itself was continuously in doubt? Since Belgorod, terror had overturned all my preconceptions, and the pace of life had been so intense one no longer knew what elements of ordinary life to abandon in order to maintain some semblance of balance. I was still unresigned to the idea of death, but I had already sworn to myself during moments of intense fear that I would exchange anything - fortune, love, even a limb - if I could simply survive.”

“Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.”

Science Force Progress Mathematics Observation Engineering Preconceptions

Author:Vera Rubin

“Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.”

Whole Eye Brain Produce Perception Constant Reminding Astonishment Preconceptions

Author:David Eagleman

“He who experiments must, while doing so, divest himself of every preconception. It is clear then that if we wish to make use of a method of experimental psychology, the first thing necessary is to renounce all former creeds and to proceed by means of the method in the search for truth.”

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Book:The Montessori Method

Source: The Montessori Method

“Say it, no ideas but in things - nothing but the blank faces of the houses and cylindrical trees bent, forked by preconception and accident - split, furrowed, creased, mottled, stained - secret - into the body of the light!”

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Book:The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams

“If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?”

Ifs Kind Inspiration Motivational Form Motivation Design Bias Preconceptions

Author:Michael Hansmeyer

“A remarkable tour de force that will hopefully end forever the argument that science and the spiritual are opposed to one another. This wonderful collection of facts and arguments, written in a good-natured, almost conversational style, makes it easy to loosen yourself from your preconceptions and enjoy seeing reality more clearly and completely. We have needed such a book for a long time.”

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Author:James Fadiman

“Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their reason to pander to their own prejudices and preconceptions, which they are so rarely competent to look in the face.”

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Author:Kenny Smith

“In the realm of ideas, it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Suffering Learning Realms Preconceptions

Author:Robert F. Goheen

“I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.”

Dislike Truthful Preconceptions

Book:Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath

Source: Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath

“The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.”

Art Ideas Stories Challenges Moral Ordinary Reactions Reverse Preconceptions

Author:Vincent Cassel

“In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way of our direct experience of life.”

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Book:Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

Source: Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

“For those who do not make the transition to a matured, more spiritual self-will reason will indeed be no more than rationalization. Here is a prodigious parallel: just as in antiquity the dysdaimonic personality could not appreciate how his mentality was bound in by his characterological (banausic, doulic) biases, so in modernity the facile or abstractivist rationalist cannot comprehend how his "rationality" merely slavishly subserves his appetites, delusions, preconceptions, ideologies, etc.”

“SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.”

Advantage Preconceptions

Author:John Thomas Sladek

“Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves.”

Kids Study Failing Fields Obvious Dues Wondrous Preconceptions

Author:Mata Amritanandamayi

“When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.”

Humans Turns Human Beings Research Sympathetic Preconceptions Empathetic

Author:Jim Broadbent

“I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.”

Thinking Should Kind Song Pops Covered Preconceptions Pop Song

Author:Ben Gibbard

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