In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet make no advance from that state in which it came to us from Euclid. As belonging to these imperfections, I consider the obscurity in the fundamental concepts of the geometrical magnitudes and in the manner and method of representing the measuring of these magnitudes, and finally the momentous gap in the theory of parallels, to fill which all efforts of mathematicians have so far been in vain.
The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.
Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.
I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage.
The concept is to weave in some emotion.
Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept.
My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
People don't understand this: Ideas are important, but they're not essential. What's essential and important is the execution of the idea. Everyone has had the experience of seeing a movie and saying, "Hey! That was my idea!" Well, it doesn't mean anything that you had that idea. There's no such thing as an original concept. What's original is the way you re-use ancient concepts.
[Evolution is] one of the best documented, most compelling and exciting concepts in all of science.
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.
Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.
The initial sketch is always an emotion, not a concept.
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
No concept is a carrier of life.
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.
I don't cook 'concepts. ' I use my head, but I cook from the heart, I cook for flavor.
I think producers are more interested in backing concepts than directors and writers. I don't think that's the right way of making a decision about whether you're going to back a film or not.
Creative ideas are often attacked because people oppose change or do not understand new concepts.
I think that great programming is not all that dissimilar to great art. Once you start thinking in concepts of programming it makes you a better person. . . as does learning a foreign language, as does learning math, as does learning how to read.