Phenomenon Quotes

623 Phenomenon quotes by 489 unique authors

It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of… — Unknown Author
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in… — Milton Friedman
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon. — Wilhelm Dilthey
Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you… — Rosser Reeves
There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he… — Red Smith
We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization — Peter L. Berger
Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization. — Lawrence Summers
My life is not merely a public phenomenon, it is a solitary adventure as well. — Tom Robbins
Three, community built on androgynous identity will mean the end of transsexuality as we know it. Either the transsexual will be able to expand his/her… — Andrea Dworkin
How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of… — Peter Medawar
The Phenomenon of Man stands square in the tradition of Naturphilosophie, a philosophical indoor pastime of German origin which does not seem even by accident… — Peter Medawar
Simultaneous discovery is utterly commonplace, and it was only the rarity of scientists, not the inherent improbability of the phenomenon, that made it remarkable in… — Peter Medawar
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet. — Yehudi Menuhin
Perhaps the single most dramatic example of this phenomenon of software eating a traditional business is the suicide of Borders and corresponding rise of Amazon — Marc Andreessen
Yet there's something ominous about turning sixty-five. Suddenly old age is not a phenomenon which will occur; it has occurred. — Colleen McCullough
Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed? — John Keegan
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. Biologists… — Louis Agassiz
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we… — Douglas Hofstadter
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a… — Carson McCullers
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon,… — Murray Gell-Mann
When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting.… — Heather O'Neill
When does a session of The Theatre of the Oppressed end? Never – since the objective is not to close a cycle, to generate a… — Augusto Boal
Too much of what led up to the crisis in the old bubble days—the conspicuous consumption, the latter-day Gatsbyism—was fueled by a need to fill… — Richard Florida
Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one… — Jacque Fresco

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