Soren Kierkegaard - Damien Hirst - Oscar Wilde - Ansel Adams - Benazir Bhutto - Dan Quayle - Albert Camus - Paul Dirac - Percy W Bridgman - Friedrich Nietzsche - Elof Axel Carlson -
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. Soren Kierkegaard
I kind of fell in love with conceptualism. Damien Hirst, interview Damien Hirst: Thoughts, Work, Life
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. Oscar Wilde
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. Ansel Adams
America’s greatest contribution to the world is its concept of democracy, its concept of freedom, freedom of action, freedom of speech, and freedom of thought. Benazir Bhutto
I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service. Dan Quayle
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. Albert Camus
I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one’s trust in a mathematical scheme, even if the scheme does not appear at first sight to be connected with physics. One should concentrate on getting interesting mathematics. Paul A M Dirac
In general, we mean by any concept nothing more than a set of operations; the concept is synonymous with the corresponding set of operations. Percy W Bridgman, The Logic of Modern Physics 1960
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws (‘a world of identical cases’) as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible: – we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible etc. for us. Friedrich Nietzsche
Whenever a new scientific concept comes into prominence, it sends shock waves of surprise to the scholars contributing to that field. Elof Axel Carlson, In the Gene: A Critical History, 1966