Phenomena Quotes

491 quotes by 365 authors

Our job in physics is to see things simply, to understand a great many complicated phenomena in a unified way, in terms of a few… — Steven Weinberg
In attempting to explain geological phenomena, the bias has always been on the wrong side; there has always been a disposition to reason Ã¡ priori… — Charles Lyell
In the patient who succumbed, the cause of death was evidently something which was not found in the patient who recovered; this something we must… — Claude Bernard
The student of biology is often struck with the feeling that historians, when dealing with the rise and fall of nations, do not generally view… — Ronald Ross
It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need… — Daniel Dennett
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. — William Whewell
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get… — Iain Banks
Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus… — Max Beckmann
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine. — Lincoln Child
The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music. — George Crumb
Our yearning for democracy is accompanied by a no less profound yearning for peace. And the media also faced the task of historical engineering to… — Noam Chomsky
It reveals to me the causes of many natural phenomena that are entirely incomprehensible in the light of the generally accepted hypotheses. To refute the… — Galileo Galilei
With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot… — Claude Bernard
The outer world in all its variety and our inner world of thoughts and emotions are not as they seem. All phenomena appear to exist… — Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells,… — Archibald Garrod
Horror is a totally different animal. It's intense. You can do drama or comedies, but in horror, you really have to trick yourself into believing… — Kyle Gallner
According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being.… — Virchand Gandhi
It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness through the mediation of phenomena different from the liking itself;… — Edmund Husserl

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