Phenomena Quotes

491 quotes by 365 authors

The collapse of the world's banking system and the impending disaster of accelerating climate change are not separate phenomena. They are simply the most visible… — Jonathon Porritt
Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world… — Robert M. Pirsig
They ask how the universe is arranged, philosophers, mathematicians, and they draw pretty pictures, impossibilities on the page. They save phenomena by telling one ugly… — Robin Wasserman
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For many phenomena, 80% of consequences stem from 20% of the causes. — Joseph M. Juran
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud. — George Sand
Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as… — Karl Marx
You are the luminous mystery in which the entire universe with its forms and phenomena arises and subsides. When this realization dawns there is a… — Deepak Chopra
The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered his… — Huangbo Xiyun
In our description of nature the purpose is not to disclose the real essence of the phenomena but only to track down, so far as… — Niels Bohr
When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave;… — Swami Vivekananda
I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with… — David Duchovny
Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed, to alter their… — Claude Bernard
Drawing instruction is a training towards perception, exact observation and exact presentation not of the outward appearances of an object, but of its constructive elements,… — Wassily Kandinsky
Indeed, the most important part of engineering work-and also of other scientific work-is the determination of the method of attacking the problem, whatever it may… — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Science has to do with facts, art with phenomena. To science, phenomena are of use only as they lead to facts; and to art, facts… — John Ruskin
The fundamental concepts of physical science, it is now understood, are abstractions, framed by our mind, so as to bring order to an apparent chaos… — William Cecil Dampier
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic. — Roman Jakobson
...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.' — Huangbo Xiyun
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. — Edgard Varese

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