And while IVF has helped millions to conceive, it would be misguided to view it as a safety net: the odds of conceiving via IVF aged 40-42 aroundound 20%, half what they are for those aged 18-34.
So an exchange during a debate in 1850 ("If the salaries of these offices were brought so low as to exclude the possibility of men of small fortune taking them," said the then chancellor of the exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, "I conceive it would do a most irreparable injury to the public service, and great injustice to such parties").
As first conceived, it would have had enforcement powers and tried to pre-empt state failure, not just cure it.
Vannevar Bush's plans, which laid the foundations of the National Science Foundation (NSF), conceived it would be a Jeffersonian research agency.
The plant, as they conceived it, would produce something like one to three gigawatts of power, which is enough to serve a medium-sized city.
As now conceived it would eventually include three to five films, a 16-part television series, a touring theater production, several books, DVD's and Web sites and an online computer game.
His team of 20 architects and model makers now had to find a way to wrap Tozzoli's 10 million square feet in a package that, as David Rockefeller and Austin Tobin conceived it, would telegraph to the world the economic might and pre-eminence of New York.
As Darpa conceives it, Lifelog would use elaborate sensors, cameras and databanks to record and digest virtually every experience of a human subject -- from his physical state, to all his activity, including the tedium of everyday life.
The dawn Pound would surely have thought it bliss to be alive in is that of the world wide web as Tim Berners-Lee originally conceived it (he would have fought tooth and nail against the web's subsequent conversion into a series of semi-private platforms).
As Ms. Birsel conceived it, each scent would be contained in a large, smooth stone that would symbolize that moment in life.
As Spiegel and his partner conceived it, the app would allow users to avoid making youthful indiscretions a matter of digital permanence.
