Quotes About Phenomenon

For every problem in a given discipline of science, there exists a species or other entity or phenomenon ideal for its solution. (Example: a kind of mollusk, Aplysia, proved ideal for exploring the cellular base of memory.) Conversely, for very species or other entity or phenomenon, there exist important problems for the solution of which it is ideally suited. (Example: bats were logical for the discovery of sonar.)

Nothing disappears before appears

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

La objetividad será aquello que la razón discierne como naturaleza del mundo, cuyas figuras sucesivas son por eso mismo fenómenos o expresiones de un fundamento.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

As a social phenomenon, political discussions invite us to position ourselves relative to others. We want to raise our individual status in our own tribe, and we want to reduce the status of other tribes. By framing issues in terms of our preferred axis, we appear to accomplish both of these goals. We impress the people who agree with us, and we delegitimize those who disagree.

Thus, I would view political disagreement as a social phenomenon rather than an individual one. We naturally tend to organize into tribe-like groups. Tribes differentiate in part on the basis of shared beliefs, including political beliefs. Our inclination to seek high status in a tribe leads us to become loyal to the beliefs of our tribe. This results in persistent disagreement.

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends.

You see, whether or not we want to admit it, political contempt and division are what economists call a demand-driven phenomenon. Famous people purvey it, but ordinary citizens are the ones creating a market for it.

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

It's great to see Zizou doing so well. He was a very quiet team-mate, he didn't speak much, but he was a phenomenon on the pitch and he was learning all the time. We didn't know he was going to be a coach but he always had the qualities for it.

Quantum entanglement is a very intriguing issue, but it is not impossible.

People aren't quiet about their experiences with ghosts anymore.

For a long time, the paranormal was a legitimate area of explanation for quite a lot of people.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

I see ghosts all the time. Genuinely. I think I've seen about four.

I am glad to see K-pop really pop off and it's cool to see how it's become an international craze.

It is an eternal phenomenon: the insatiable will always finds a way to detain its creatures in life and compel them to live on, by means of an illusion spread over things.

the existence of the world is justified only as an aesthetic phenomenon.

Postojanje i svet izgledaju opravdani jedino kao estetski fenomen: u kom smislu nas upravo tragi?ki mit treba da ubedi kako su ?ak i rugoba i nesklad umetni?ka igra koju volja, u ve?itom preobilju svoje naslade, igra sa samom sobom.

Years ago atheism was an individual phenomenon; today atheism is social, the atheist who once was a curiosity, is now a component part of some of the governments of the world. Once men quarreled because they wanted God worshipped in a certain way; now they quarrel because they do not want God worshipped at all. The wars of religion of the seventeenth century have become the wars against religion of the twentieth century.

Hearing is the motion of molecules; sound is a wave in the atmosphere; solidity is the characteristic of spatial juxtaposition of atoms; smell is something given off by a body, rather than something belonging to a body.

Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.