Phenomena Quotes

491 quotes by 381 authors

I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the… — Leonardo da Vinci
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of… — Adolphe Quetelet
I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called… — Justus von Liebig
If catastrophic geology had at times pushed Nature to almost indecent extremes of haste, uniformitarian geology, on the other hand, had erred in the opposite… — William Johnson Sollas
I would like to start by emphasizing the importance of surfaces. It is at a surface where many of our most interesting and useful phenomena… — Walter Houser Brattain
Quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space. They occur in a laboratory. — Asher Peres
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the… — Eugene Wigner
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It… — Augustus De Morgan
Geology is part of that remarkable dynamic process of the human mind which is generally called science and to which man is driven by an… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to… — William Herschel
The word 'chance' then expresses only our ignorance of the causes of the phenomena that we observe to occur and to succeed one another in… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The… — Tsung-Dao Lee
The total quantity of all the forces capable of work in the whole universe remains eternal and unchanged throughout all their changes. All change in… — Hermann von Helmholtz
While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the… — Robert S. Mulliken
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary… — Daniel Bernoulli
A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain and… — Johannes Peter Muller
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not of… — William Henry Chamberlin
As soon as we touch the complex processes that go on in a living thing, be it plant or animal, we are at once forced… — John Jacob Abel
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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