Quotes About Concept

This is huge. Saying that a gene "decides" when it is transcribed is like saying that a recipe decides when a cake is baked. Thus transcription factors regulate genes. What regulates transcription factors? The answer devastates the concept of genetic determinism: the environment.

Money is just an idea.

I think I have made my message clear. It's what is in your head that determines what is in your hands. Money is only an idea.

If you believe in a thing it doesn't matter whether it exists or not

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere.

While it has wonderful appeal, decentralization turns out to be a very slippery concept. How can it have any importance in a society thoroughly enmeshed in centralized patterns?

No. But then the American Government--whatever branch--has never really grasped the concept of tribal identity.

note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Mathematics is pure language - the language of science. It is unique among languages in its ability to provide precise expression for every thought or concept that can be formulated in its terms.

It is impossible to disassociate language from science...To call forth a concept, a word is needed.

On their way toward modern science human beings have discarded meaning. The concept is replaced by the formula, the cause by rules and probability.

Where lies the line between sorcery and science? It is only a matter of terminology, my friend.

Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

Art and science create a balance to material life and enlarge the world of living experience. Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The effect of a concept-driven revolution is to explain old things in new ways. The effect of a tool-driven revolution is to discover new things that have to be explained.

Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

...in any society, Law is an illusory concept that works only when everyone voluntarily agrees to live by it.

As rendered by Rolland Munro, the concept of 'melancholy' in its current use 'represents not so much a state of indecision, a wavering between the choice of going one way or another, so much as it represents a backing off from the very divisions'; it stands for a 'disentanglement' from 'being attached to anything specific'. To be 'melancholic' is 'to sense the infinity of connection, but be hooked up to nothing'.