Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

This is exposure to a clientele who may have had a preconceived notion of what we're like. Once they're in there, they experience (the restaurant) and that's the best form of marketing.

But anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact, rarely get as far as fact; and anyone who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the 'anticipation of Nature,' that is, by the invention of hypotheses, which, though verifiable, often had very little foundation to start with.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.