Quotes About Phenomenon

The power of a volcano when it erupts is so evident, so visible, so palpable.

There are many strange happenings, my boy. Many mysteries beyond the power of the human mind to comprehend.

Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.

Mom, my bed was shaking.

La mejor explicación para cualquier fenómeno —dijo Karras, pasando por alto la observación— es siempre la más sencilla que se presente y que incluya todos los hechos.

Only an object can suffer, but phenomenally subject and object, being one whole, spin like a coin so that the intervals between pile et face (heads and tails) are imperceptible. Consequently pain, or pleasure, appear to be continual. Noumenally, on the contrary, there is no object to suffer pain or pleasure. Noumenon is invulnerable, and cannot be otherwise. Noumenon is the unmanifested aspect of what we, sentient beings, are: Phenomenon is our manifestation.

It is characteristic of the ethnocentrism of anthropology that whereas the rationality of claims by African and other primitive diviners to be able to see what is not visible to the ordinary eye has long seemed to be a proper subject of investigation, the occult powers of our own diviners have been taken for granted. Magic has been regarded as a bizarre phenomenon, the artness of art has not.

La conciencia es un fenómeno en medio de un océano de fenómenos que escapan a su control, de manera que no creo que podamos ejercer una completa supervisión de todo lo que pasa por nuestra mente.

Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomenon, or even in human emotions.

What makes a species of insect—or of mammal, or of microbe—capable of the outbreak phenomenon? That's a complicated question that the experts are still trying to answer.

It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

The present era is so proud that it has produced a phenomenon which I imagine to be unprecedented: the present's resentment of the past, resentment because the past had the audacity to happen without us being there, without our cautious opinion and our hesitant consent, and even worse, without our gaining any advantage from it.

Cent éclairs par seconde frappent la surface terrestre !

Seeking a simpler life is not a 21st century phenomenon, nor a new-age fad, and it didn't begin in California – the desire for simplicity has been evident for centuries.

Topological anomaly? Topological anomaly? Don't you mean witchcraft ? Don't you mean the end of civilisation? Don't you mean some kind of spooky thing that we know nothing, absolutely fucking nothing about, to go with everything else we don't know?

What do you mean no one knows where he is? Human beings don't just disappear. Not unless they've been abducted by aliens. But even then, isn't there some kind of crop circle left behind or something?

British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington's memorable explanation of how the universe works: "Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

It is obvious that the "unit"—inch—has no value by itself, but is very precious as a unit for measuring the phenomenon of length, which it perfectly represents, and that is why it was introduced.

It was now light twenty-four hours a day; the sun disappeared only briefly near midnight, leaving prolonged, magnificent twilight. Often during this period, the phenomenon of an "ice shower," caused by the moisture in the air freezing and settling to earth, lent a fairyland atmosphere to the scene.

It is a miracle she said in the sense that there's no explanation

The standard of man's life is supposed to be objective because it is derived from the facts that give rise to the phenomenon of values. This derivation requires that the word "life" (or "survival") in the standard be understood literally, in terms of the alternative between existence and non-existence.

Se ha visto, bajo la influencia de ciertos médiums, aparecer manos teniendo todas las propiedades de manos vivientes que tienen calor, que se pueden tocar, que ofrecen la resistencia de un cuerpo sólido que os agarran, y que de repente se desvanecen como una sombra.