Quotes About Concept

Yes, that's what I meant to say. If this seems a bit circular to you, well, it is, but it has deep meaning.

Qu'est-ce qu'un pays sinon l'idée qu'on s'en fait ?

What was a country but the idea of it?

The concept of the computing universe is still just a hypothesis; nothing has been proved. However, I am confident that this idea can help unveil the secrets of nature.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

the "nation" (like the "State") is a personified concept …The nation has no life of its own apart from the individual, and is therefore not an end in itself…. All life is individual life, in which alone the ultimate meaning is to be found.

Because there are innumerable things beyond the range of human understanding, we cannot constantly use symbolic terms to represent concepts that we cannot define or fully comprehend.

The concept of "cure" is entirely inappropriate, since in most of these disorders we are dealing with learned behavior, not with a disease.

The conservation of energy in the atomic model found its final treatment in the hands of Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–94), who, like Mayer, started from physiological considerations, and about whom we spoke in detail in the previous chapter. In his fundamental work of 1847 [18] he explicitly introduced the concept of potential energy.

And it is at this point that an extraordinary idea occurred to him, a stroke of pure genius: the gravitational field is not diffused through space; the gravitational field is that space itself. This is the idea of the general theory of relativity. Newton's "space," through which things move, and the "gravitational field" are one and the same thing.

Newton nesnelerin uzayda hareket etti?ini, uzay?n da bo? bir kap, evren için büyük bir kutu oldu?unu hayal etmi?ti. Newton taraf?ndan icat edilen bu "uzay"?n, dünyan?n kutusunun neden yap?ld??? da belli de?ildi.

This clarified, here is the point: it is possible to think of quantum physics as a theory of information (in the sense outlined) that systems have about one another.

Enzo Traverso distingue cuatro conceptos confundidos en el debate político actual: populismo, fascismo, neofascismo y posfascismo, reservando el último para caracterizar a las derechas extremas del siglo XXI.

Using pictures to tell stories is a technique well established in the neuroscience literature in a concept called picture superiority. Researchers have found that if you simply hear information, you will recall about 10 percent of the content. If you hear the information and see a picture, it's likely that you will retain 65 percent of the content.

The letter of the law says, "Let them glean." The spirit of the law says, "Feed them." Two entirely different concepts. Ruth's bold proposal exposes the difference.

There is no single concept of nature; it embraces everything that is fluid, changing, and mysterious. Ultimately, however, to "know nature" on earth is to live within it and to revere it in every way.

At heart, the mobile concept is about being in control—as a separate and distinct individual. This is the basis of mobilising the concept of communication—that it's an activity undertaken by an individual, over which that individual seeks control. (20)

Time and Space are not prior to creation, they are forms under which creation becomes thinkable.

The religious concept of creation flows from a sense of wonder at the existence of the universe and our place in it. The scientific concept of creation encompasses no less a sense of wonder.

I had a very interesting experience with P.C.Chatterjee, one of my investment advisors. His concept was to look at technology companies as asset-rich companies, where the customer was treated as an asset. If a company had a strong customer base, it could be worth a lot even though it had a lousy management and a lack of products. And he felt that with a little push, these values could be unlocked. It proved to be a valid concept.

We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication, and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.

The name of a thing is not the thing.

The idea is in my head; to put it down is nothing.

Law and love are the same - romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.