Quotes About Phenomenon

I argue that the phenomenon of consciousness cannot be accommodated within the framework of present-day physical theory.

Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.

Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all amorous sentiment.

I mused about the human phenomenon that went by the title "organized religion." What, I wondered, was disorganized religion?

Roughly speaking: objects are colourless

There are, indeed, things that are inexpressible. They show themselves. They are what is mystical.

What can be described can happen too: and what the law of causality is meant to exclude cannot even be described.

The phenomenon of relative deprivation applied to education is called—appropriately enough—the "Big Fish–Little Pond Effect." The more elite an educational institution is, the worse students feel about their own academic abilities.

But what does the Goldman algorithm say? Quite the opposite: that all that extra information isn't actually an advantage at all; that, in fact, you need to know very little to find the underlying signature of a complex phenomenon.

The sociologist Robert Merton famously called this phenomenon the "Matthew Effect" after the New Testament verse in the Gospel of Matthew: "For unto everyone that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath." It is those who are successful, in other

Somehow in the whore the cold womb, constantly subjected to desire, produces a phenomenon. All the eroticism comes to the surface. The constant living with a penis inside of one does something fascinating to a woman. The womb seems to be exposed, to be present in every aspect of her.

For the cinema image is essentially the observation of a phenomenon passing through time.

The cinema image is the observation of a phenomenon passing through time. Time becomes the very foundation of cinema...Time exerts a pressure which runs through the shot ...Just as a quivering reed can tell you about the current or water pressure of a river, in the same way we know the movement of time as it flows through the shot.

necessary to discuss the phenomenon. Quoting a California nurse who told the Times she had delivered "hundreds of anchor babies," the New York Times quickly added that she was using "a derisive term to describe children whose parents did not hold citizenship.

England's Flying Saucer Review

the past has no existence except as it is recorded in the present. (...) we would seem forced to say that no phenomenon is a phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon. The universe does not 'exist, out there' independent of all acts of observation. Instead, it is in some strange sense a participatory universe

The feedback that I get from my association with Gomez is heartwarming. It is very difficult for me to take anything but a positive view of the Gomez phenomenon.

Whether the nostalgia of the Edsel boys for the Edsel runs to the humorous or to the tragic, it is a thought-provoking phenomenon. Maybe it means merely that they miss the limelight they first basked in and later squirmed in, or maybe it means that a time has come when—as in Elizabethan drama but seldom before in American business—failure can have a certain grandeur that success never knows.

The dharma teaches us the impermanence of all phenomena, but you cannot prepare yourself for the loss of the phenomenon you love more than yourself.

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

The life-world of human and animal experience, with colours, tastes, solid objects, is a perceptual effect of massed atoms.

Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.

Washington rightly called this "a new phenomenon in the political & moral world; and an astonishing victory gained by enlightened reason over brutal force.

This phenomenon has been called the wisdom of crowds. But like most simplifications, this has a flip side, as in the Madoff case. Here there were just two answers, fraudster or investment genius. The crowd voted for investment genius and got it wrong. I call the flip side to the wisdom of crowds the lunacy of lemmings.