Quotes About Phenomenon

Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

As for earthquakes, though they were still formidable, they were so interesting that men of science could hardly regret them.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

There is no such thing as magic. Just that which you do not understand.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

... things are the way they are in our universe because if they Weren't, we would not be here to notice.

I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

Estas tendencias patológicas (y sobre todo de despilfarro innecesario) del crecimiento exponencial de la producción de bienes y servicios podrían ser diagnosticadas a tiempo —vale decir, reconocidas por lo que son, e incluso inspirar medidas curativas o preventivas— si no fuera por la existencia de otro fenómeno de crecimiento exponencial que desemboca en un exceso de información.

Except if you're of European descent. Your lactase continues to work throughout your life. This unusual phenomenon is called lactase persistence, and although a splash of milk in tea is the English way, and even a mug of hot chocolate might seem very normal to us, we are the weird ones.

Sexiness might at first appear to be a merely physiological phenomenon, the result of awakened hormones and stimulated nerve endings. But in truth it is not so much about sensations as it is about ideas—foremost among them the idea of acceptance and the promise of an end to loneliness and shame.

In my opinion, the existence of life is a highly overrated phenomenon.

In my opinion, it's a highly over-rated phenomenon. Mars gets along perfectly without so much as a micro-organism. See: There's the South Pole beneath us now. . . No life. No life at all, but giant steps, ninety feet high, scoured by dust and wind into a constantly changing topographical map, flowing and shifting around the pole in ripples ten thousand years wide. Tell me. . . would it be greatly improved by an oil pipeline?

There is no hypnotic phenomenon, no matter how remarkable it may appear, which cannot be re-created outside of a hypnotic state through such ordinary devices such as suggestion, hype and the exercise of charisma.

Nationalism is a phenomenon of the world after the 1789 French Revolution; it implies a common consciousness created within a consolidated territory, usually involving a single language and shared culture, producing a public rhetoric of a single national will, and with the agenda of creating or reinforcing a unitary state.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

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As a matter of fact, in watching the phenomenon of human decisions, one is struck by the extent to which people are mistaken in taking as "their" decision what in effect is submission to convention, duty, or simple pressure. It almost seems that "original" decision is a comparatively rare phenomenon in a society which supposedly makes individual decision

You can't know anything beforehand. The incurable can survive the healthy. Life is a strange phenomenon.

A ghostly virga of ice followed it through the night