Phenomena Quotes

491 quotes by 365 authors

Our ideas are only intellectual instruments which we use to break into phenomena; we must change them when they have served their purpose, as we… — Claude Bernard
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to… — Henry John Stephen Smith
Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He… — Etienne Gilson
The future. Space travel, or cosmology. Alternate universes. Time travel. Robots. Marvelous inventions. Immortality. Catastrophes. Aliens. Superman. Other dimensions. Inner space, or the psyche. These… — Kate Wilhelm
And there is a lot of idiosyncrasy. But there are also regularities and phenomena. And what the data is going to be able to do--if… — Esther Duflo
Here was opportunity to make an audience walk and move, be sociable in a way never dreamed of by the rigors of cinema-watching, in circumstances… — Peter Greenaway
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena. — Louis Pasteur
Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling. — Leonardo da Vinci
A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave. — Peter Shaffer
The one who recognizes the uncertainty of phenomena is the Dharma within you. — Ajahn Chah
Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena. — Albert Einstein
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. — Stephen Hawking
The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we… — Thomas Merton
The purpose of pure science is to observe phenomena and to trace their laws; the purpose of art is to produce, modify, or destroy. Strictly… — Unknown Author
Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned… — Isaac Newton
I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated… — Isaac Newton
SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. — Ambrose Bierce
The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective… — Carl Jung
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in… — Hermann von Helmholtz

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