Phenomena Quotes
491 quotes by 365 authors
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In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really about.
— Brian Ferneyhough
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Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of land, wealth, and labor from indigenous people in…
— James W. Loewen
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there…
— Rebecca Solnit
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Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope...now…
— Dziga Vertov
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A new vision and understanding of something demands a new way of talking about it, for the old terminology gets in the way of this…
— Medard Boss
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There has been a plan in effect since at least 1917 to create, an artificial Extraterrestrial threat to the planet Earth, so as to bring…
— Milton William Cooper
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All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the…
— Mo Yan
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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All phenomena link together in a mutually conditioning network.
— Gautama Buddha
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It is impossible! It has never happened - it cannot happen in the very nature of things. Marriage is something against nature. Marriage is an…
— Rajneesh
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Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest…
— P D Ouspensky
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No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds…
— Unknown Author
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The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives…
— Arnold Bennett
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First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so…
— Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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In the development of the understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction. Abstraction arises from the recognition…
— Tony Hoare
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The simplest and most obvious cause which can there be assigned for any phenomena, is probably the true one.
— David Hume
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In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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That's why we cannot love, because with the ego, love is impossible. That's why we go on talking so much about love, but we never…
— Rajneesh
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Hence, wherever we meet with vital phenomena that present the two aspects, physical and psychical there naturally arises a question as to the relations in…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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I think that in order to achieve progress in the study of language and human cognitive faculties in general it is necessary first to establish…
— Noam Chomsky
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