Phenomenon Quote by John Archibald Wheeler Download Open image “No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.” — John Archibald Wheeler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Phenomenon Real
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“You might say, "However, since the seeming is also nothing different, it is not the sphere of cognition. [Ultimately,] this is very true indeed.… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whether or not you can observe a thing depends upon the theory you use. It is the theory which decides what can be observed. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
“Never make a calculation until you know the answer. Make an estimate before every calculation, try a simple physical argument (symmetry! invariance! conservation!) before every derivation, guess the answer to every paradox and puzzle. Courage: No one else needs to know what the guess is. Therefore make it quickly, by instinct. A right guess reinforces this instinct. A wrong guess… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share
Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the discrete, of information, of bits… Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than 'time.' Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share
The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
There are many modes of thinking about the world around us and our place in it. I like to consider all the angles from… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
I like to say, when asked why I pursue science, that it is to satisfy my curiosity, that I am by nature a searcher… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind… — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Empirically, things are poignant, tragic, beautiful, humorous, settled, disturbed, comfortable, annoying, barren, harsh, consoling, splendid, fearful; are such immediately and in their own right and behalf… These traits stand in themselves on precisely the same level as colours, sounds, qualities of contact, taste and smell. Any criterion that finds the latter to be ultimate and "hard" data will, impartially applied,… — John Dewey Copy Share
One of the most abused country on earth is Mexico. The marketing spills over the border, and people are persuaded to eat food that's bad for them, more in rich countries than in poor ones. I was traveling the world. What really struck me was the way we engage with food - how it's a global phenomenon - the world… — Raj Patel Copy Share
Buddhism advises you not to implant feelings that you don’t really have or avoid feelings that you do have. If you are miserable you are miserable; that is the reality, that is what is happening, so confront that. Look it square in the eye without flinching. When you are having a bad time, examine that experience, observe it mindfully, study… — Anonymous Copy Share
The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and idea patents, erecting tariff barriers to protect monopolies from foreign competition, and taxing laborers to subsidize rich farmers and privileged manufacturers. Then we create "social workers, " etc., to care for them and thereby establish… — Laurance Labadie Copy Share
every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire has been ethically ambiguous. If you want to reason about faith, and offer a reasoned (and reason responsive) defense of faith as an extra category of belief worthy of special consideration, I'm eager to play. I… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share
Fly flight is just a great phenomenon to study. It has everything - from the most sophisticated sensory biology; really, really interesting physics; really… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
Marriage is going to disappear, should disappear. And now the point is coming in the history of humanity where it becomes possible that marriage can disappear. It is already an outmoded phenomenon, it has lived too long and it has created nothing but misery. Marriage should disappear and love should flower again. One should live with insecurity and freedom. That… — Rajneesh Copy Share
The nature of the Absolute is neither perceptible nor imperceptible; and with phenomena it is just the same. But to one who has discovered… — Huangbo Xiyun Copy Share Image
Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image