Quotes About Phenomenon

Political atheism is a distinctly modern phenomenon. No premodern atheist doubted that social life required belief in, and worship of, God or gods.

There is one fact that can be established: the only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing … is the establishment of hierarchical societies, consisting of masters and slaves, and where one part of the population is made to work for the other part.5

So naturally I'm fascinated with the phenomenon of the NDE, of 'going over.

By definition, his job as an enigmalogist meant he needed to keep an open mind about anything, no matter how strange; his resistance, even skepticism, about the possibility of a phenomenon like lycanthropy was something he couldn't explain.

Taste is a phenomenon. Most of taste is unconscious - it comes from your upbringing, from your family, from your society, your gender, your race; it's a melange of all those things.

What this power is, I cannot say... All I know is that it exists.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?

Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.

When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

Spooky action at a distance.

I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.

with fame I become more, and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon

Today I feel no wish to demonstrate that sanity is impossible. On the contrary, though I remain no less sadly certain than in the past that sanity is a rather rare phenomenon, I am convinced that it can be achieved and would like to see more of it.

Cómo es el fin del mundo? -le preguntó Baldabiou. -Invisible.

Lightning always strikes in the same place twice, said Mma Ramotswe. Whatever people say to the contrary.

If people have ghosts, then why shouldn't other things have them? What makes us so special that only we can have ghosts?

Outer-body-experiences are hard to describe, since all we really know are our five senses. Suffice it to say that there was a tingling sensation and a sense of the laws of gravity loosening their grip on my body, much like being an astronaut floating above the surface of my house.

On some level, the reality of the universe depended on conscious observers.

a number of prominent scientists believe our minds are quantum instruments. That consciousness itself is a quantum event.

Intersex is the natural phenomenon known to the medical profession for centuries but necessarily obscure to everyone else. It is the fact that a small percentile of human beings are born either with ambiguous genitalia or turn out to have other biological attributes (for instance an unusually large clitoris, or an unusually small penis) which suggest that they may lie somewhere between the sexes.

Such exponential growth does not occur in the natural world, except maybe for cancer—and that growth ceases once the host has been consumed.