Phenomena Quotes

491 quotes by 381 authors

My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice… — Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
In the final, the positive, state, the mind has given over the vain search after absolute notions, the origin and destination of the universe, and… — Auguste Comte
Isolated facts and experiments have in themselves no value, however great their number may be. They only become valuable in a theoretical or practical point… — Hermann von Helmholtz
My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life. — Ivan Sechenov
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an… — August Kekule
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved… — John Polkinghorne
There are no enemies in science, professor, only phenomena to study. — Charles Lederer
We regard as 'scientific' a method based on deep analysis of facts, theories, and views, presupposing unprejudiced, unfearing open discussion and conclusions. The complexity and… — Andrei Sakharov
Life itself is but the expression of a sum of phenomena, each of which follows the ordinary physical and chemical laws. — Rudolf Virchow
It is easy to make out three areas where scientists will be concentrating their efforts in the coming decades. One is in physics, where leading… — Dennis Flanagan
I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny. — Nicolaas Bloembergen
The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances… — Joseph Lovering
Philosophy would long ago have reached a high level if our predecessors and fathers had put this into practice; and we would not waste time… — Marin Mersenne
The investigation of causal relations between economic phenomena presents many problems of peculiar difficulty, and offers many opportunities for fallacious conclusions. Since the statistician can… — Udny Yule
To explain new phenomena, that is my task; and how happy is the scientist when he finds what he so diligently sought, a pleasure that… — Carl Wilhelm Scheele
Nothing is sudden in nature: whereas the slightest storms are forecasted several days in advance, the destruction of the world must have been announced several… — Nicolas Antoine Boulanger
The simplicity of nature is not to be measured by that of our conceptions. Infinitely varied in its effects, nature is simple only in its… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the world… — Pierre-Simon Laplace

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