Phenomena Quotes

491 quotes by 365 authors

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The reappearance of the crescent moon after the new moon; the return of the Sun after a total eclipse, the rising of the Sun in… — Carl Sagan
Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to… — Erich von DÃ¤niken
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from… — Thomas Mann
The moon had been observing the earth close-up longer than anyone. It must have witnessed all of the phenomena occurring - and all of the… — Haruki Murakami
GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear — Tom Stoppard
Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the… — Iain Banks
Life: a constellation of vital phenomenaâ€”organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. — Anthony Marra
We are all as much extraordinary phenomena of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the… — Alan Watts
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a… — Marie Curie
Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that… — Benjamin Peirce
History has now been for the first time systematically considered, and has been found, like other phenomena, subject to invariable laws. — Auguste Comte
The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every… — Emma Goldman
How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His… — Joseph Heller
The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell… — William Whewell
Education is the ability to perceive the hidden connections between phenomena. — Vaclav Havel
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular… — William James
Science is the century-old endeavour to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as… — Karl Popper
I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena… — William James
...By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore… — William James

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