Phenomena Quotes

491 quotes by 365 authors

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York.… — James Patterson
It is not accidental that all phenomena of human life are dominated by the search for daily bread - the oldest link connecting all living… — Ivan Pavlov
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. — Wilhelm Reich
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food.… — Jonathan Sacks
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic… — Erwin Schrodinger
One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern nerd - the nerd is out and proud, and… — Will Self
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our… — Will Self
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles. — George Bernard Shaw
Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all… — Michael Shermer
We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In… — Lewis Thomas
A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves… — Ivan Turgenev
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason,… — George Washington
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in… — Robert Anton Wilson
Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are changed by observation,… — Julian Baggini
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it… — Martin Filler
I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot. — Stella Gibbons
I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I… — Hermann Hesse
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's… — Hermann Hesse
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the… — Theodor Adorno

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