Quotes with concepts

  • All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
  • Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
  • We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
  • There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.
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  • Alva Myrdal A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Albert Einstein All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bob Kane Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Brad D. Smith At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Benjamin Whorf At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Abdus Salam From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
    Abdus Salam
    Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926 - 1996)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • H. A. Kramers In the world of human thought generally, and in physical science particularly, the most important and fruitful concepts are those to which it is impossible to attach a well-defined meaning.
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  • Immanuel Kant Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • Amos Oz Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
    The Believer Interview 20 oct 2016
    Amos Oz
    Israeli writer (1939 - 2018)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. This is a powerful group of paired concepts generated by the complementarity of conceptuality.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Umberto Eco The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Frederick Frieseke The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
    Frederick Frieseke
    American-born French painter (1874 - 1939)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller There is an inherently minimum set of essential concepts and current information, cognizance of which could lead to our operating our planet Earth to the lasting satisfaction and health of all humanity.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bo Bennett Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
    Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Abraham Kaplan We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Brad Feld When I struggled with a depressive episode in 2013, I realized that I had a glitch in my thinking about my own motivation. I had separated learning and teaching into different concepts.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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