Phenomena Quotes

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There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world. — Nikolai Lobachevsky
While, on the one hand, the end of scientific investigation is the discovery of laws, on the other, science will have reached its highest goal… — William Mitchinson Hicks
But the World being once fram'd, and the course of Nature establish'd, the Naturalist, (except in some few cases, where God, or Incorporeal Agents interpose),… — Robert Boyle
God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang… — Henry Margenau
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by… — Henry Thomas Buckle
Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by… — Robert Lowie
We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the philosopher… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
By harmony all phenomena are formed and sustained. There is a scientific statement to the effect that this earth is a vast harmonic wave system… — Corinne Heline
It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena... The atom must remain… — Ernst Mach
From the aspect of energy, renewed by radio-active phenomena, material corpuscles may now be treated as transient reservoirs of concentrated power. Though never found in… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else — Ambrose Bierce
Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them. — Joseph Fourier
The timing & characteristics of state intervention affect not only organizational tactics and strategies, but the content and definition of interest itself... Some scholars have… — Theda Skocpol
But it will be found... that one universal law prevails in all these phenomena. Where two portions of the same light arrive in the eye… — Thomas Young
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The beauty of physics lies in the extent which seemingly complex and unrelated phenomena can be explained and correlated through a high level of abstraction… — Melvin Schwartz
The natural scientist is concerned with a particular kind of phenomena ... he has to confine himself to that which is reproducible ... I do… — Wolfgang Pauli
The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it… — Michio Kaku
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and… — Charles Baudelaire
I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do think that everything… — Tim Winton

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