But they realise they need a really new, wholly scientific conception.
If this were a new religion, invented to satisfy our modern scientific conceptions, we could not find a flaw in the correctness of this view of the energy of the solar system.
The discovery of this clearly active, agile predator did much to change the scientific (and popular) conception of dinosaurs and opened the door to speculation that dinosaurs may have been warm-blooded.
Working in shirtsleeves on his TV laboratory set, Mr. Herbert aroused the curiosity of children in an informal way that turned sometimes arcane scientific conceptions into fun.
It had an influence on Condillac's Grammaire (1775) and a very important role in the birth of a scientific conception of language.
Since both naïve and scientific conceptions are grounded in the same broad pool of sub-conceptual resources, conceptual change is seen as the reorganization of these resources.
On leaving he was apprenticed to a civil engineer at Derby, where he acquired "a store of exclusively scientific conceptions," but also began to look to religion for mental stimulation.
Thus the analogy between the magical and the scientific conceptions of the world is close.
Schröer H.: Relevance and reliability of Ludwig's scientific conceptions of the physiology of the microcirculation.
A synthesis of spiritual and scientific conceptions of Gayatri, the Power of God Savitr is depicted in "Gayatri-Gitika".