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Quotes About Phenomenon

Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?
~ Stephen Hawking
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to observe it. Antiparticle:
~ Stephen Hawking
Bodies such as stars or black holes cannot just appear out of nothing. But a whole universe can.
~ Stephen Hawking
In general relativity, bodies always follow straight lines in four-dimensional space-time, but they nevertheless appear to us to move along curved paths in our three-dimensional space. (This is rather like watching an airplane flying over hilly ground. Although it follows a straight line in three-dimensional space, its shadow follows a curved path on the two-dimensional ground.)
~ Stephen Hawking
Corpuri precum stelele sau g?urile negre nu pot ap?rea din nimic. Dar un întreg univers poate.
~ Stephen Hawking
The laws of physics demand the existence of something called 'negative energy'.
~ Stephen Hawking
A black hole is a region where gravity is so strong that light cannot escape.
~ Stephen Hawking
science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
In this world No phenomenon is strange.It surprises us because of our lack of knowledge about it." - Jahanshah Safari
~ Jahanshah Safari
fascism, properly understood, is not a phenomenon of the right at all. Instead, it is, and always has been, a phenomenon of the left. This fact—an inconvenient truth if there ever was one—is obscured in our time by the equally mistaken belief that fascism and communism are opposites. In reality, they are closely related, historical competitors for the same constituents, seeking to dominate and control the same social space.
~ Jonah Goldberg
Experiment participants asked to pick which politician looked more confident in a photograph picked the winner of the race two thirds of the time. This phenomenon held up even when they only glimpsed the photographs for a 10th of a second.
~ Jonathan Haidt
The basic position of theological aesthetics, argued by reasonable inference from Scripture, is that beauty corresponds in some way to the attributes of God, and as such is a communicated property or phenomenon of the opera Dei ad extra.
~ Jonathan King
The greatest challenge of any society is how to contain the universal, inevitable phenomenon of envy, the desire to have what belongs to someone else. Envy lies at the heart of violence.
~ Jonathan Sacks
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
~ Erich Fromm
In an entry from late 1979, Dick writes Heuristics is right on. The closer you get to reality the closer you get to (and to seeing) process. Q isn't "what is (esse)?" but "What does?" […] replace each "is" with "does" and ontology vanishes. All you have is a perpetually perturbed reality field! With a self-producing vortex.12
~ Erik Davis
suggestion: anomaly is a characteristic of the real. Whatever
~ Erik Davis
The loss of hunger regulation after the age of four is a phenomenon that transcends cultures and continents.
~ Bee Wilson
I became fascinated with this phenomenon of hearing loud voices at a distance and trying to account how I knew they were loud when I can barely hear them. Something about their shapes or their shapelessness or the way they filter through the walls.
~ Ben Lerner
In England, you feel like a member of the revolutionary guard the minute you even mention race. But I do think that the OscarsSoWhite phenomenon will have to reflect back on England. What people are essentially saying is that they want to see more diverse stories. It's not about putting three black people in the back of the shot.
~ David Harewood
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.
~ Steven Pinker
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
~ Emil Cioran
Black holes can bang against space-time as mallets on a drum and have a very characteristic song.
~ Janna Levin
When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
~ Renee Fleming
First, Simplest Explanation. The simplest and most obvious explanation of any phenomenon is usually the correct one.
~ Glen Cook