Phenomena Quotes

491 quotes by 365 authors

Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give… — Rudolf Rocker
We are compelled by reflection to recognize that God is not to be placed against the material world [as in Christianity], but must be placed… — Ernst Haeckel
We are perhaps not far removed from the time when we shall be able to submit the bulk of chemical phenomena to calculation. — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge. — Joseph Black
I have been interested in phenomena involving complexity, diversity and evolution since I was a young boy. — Murray Gell-Mann
A mind now clouded by the illusions of the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but when polished, it is sure to… — Nichiren
Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the… — M.C. Escher
Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient… — Wilhelm Wundt
Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. — Robert Smithson
Most people don't put things together. Geologists study the surface of the earth and geological phenomena. Meteorogists study the weather. That isn't science. Science is… — Jacque Fresco
The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â… — Aleister Crowley
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena… — Rudy Rucker
If our Gods and our hopes are nothing but scientific phenomena, then let us admit it must be said that our love is scientific as… — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies… — Chauncey Wright
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world - to pronounce it -- and to make notations of its essences with which… — Morris Graves
The limitations of archaeology are galling. It collects phenomena, but hardly ever can isolate them so as to interpret scientifically; it can frame any number… — David George Hogarth
Understanding that everything is impermanent, that happiness is transformed into suffering, and that all phenomena are lacking reality in themselves and are only projections of… — Bokar Rinpoche
There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural… — Joseph Fourier
The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics. — Isaac Newton
For a physicist mathematics is not just a tool by means of which phenomena can be calculated, it is the main source of concepts and… — Freeman Dyson

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