Phenomena Quotes
491 quotes by 365 authors
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The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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The thing that got me started on the science that I've been building now for about 20 years or so was the question of okay,…
— Stephen Wolfram
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Of course, a psychologist would find it more direct to study the inspired poet. He would make concrete studies of inspiration in individual geniuses. But…
— Gaston Bachelard
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As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without exception, because the…
— Claude Bernard
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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are…
— Claude Bernard
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He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of confusion,…
— John Robert Seeley
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A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to…
— Rajneesh
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Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
— Uri Geller
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The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go.
— Nhat Hanh
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With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to…
— Wassily Kandinsky
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The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular…
— William Crookes
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We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method…
— Paul Dirac
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One of the chief peculiarities of this treatise is the doctrine that the true electric current, on which the electromagnetic phenomena depend, is not the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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Industrial culture? There has been a phenomena; I don't know whether it's strong enough to be a culture. I do think what we did has…
— Genesis P-Orridge
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But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events…
— David Hume
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In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only…
— Georg Simmel
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