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Quotes About Phenomenon

The truth of the world is like Air, which is there but unexplainable.
~ Nitesh Sabne
We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want?
~ Edgar Mitchell
In good weather a feature of New York life became the afternoon carriage parade, between four and five o'clock, along the Mall. For this, everyone turned out—the old rich, the nouveaux and members of the demimonde. Throngs of curious onlookers and tourists lined the entrance to the Mall to observe this unique phenomenon and
~ Stephen Birmingham
Flies struggled from her mouth, only to ignite into brilliant golden sparks. Hundreds of them, thousands of them burst from her into their individual pinprick of fire which then was gone for ever, like the distant implosion of a dying star...
~ Stephen Gregory
Every religious figure in history achieved enlightenment between the ages of twenty-five and thirtyfive. That seems to be when human consciousness comes fully into its own and acquires a finer spiritual perception. Perhaps it simply takes that long to develop. In any case, it's a well-documented phenomenon. Look it up sometime.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
nature, a phenomenon unrelated to humanity or even to life itself.
~ Stephen Solomita
Life is not made of atoms,it is merely built out of them. What life is actually 'made of' is cycles of cause and effect, loops of causal flow. These phenomenon are just as real as atoms - perhaps even more real. If anything, the entire universe is actually made from events, of which atoms are merely some of the consequences.
~ Steve Grand
I haven't experienced anything paranormal yet, but I did see what I think was a meteor light up the sky in a flash of red for a few seconds. That was really cool.
~ Ryan Lee
I've seen lights in the sky, I've seen UFOs, I've even seen something on the ground that I can't explain, but I've never actually seen a being. I wish I had.
~ Uri Geller
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.
~ Saul Perlmutter
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
~ Chuck D
She couldn't quite believe it, even after all these years. It was a phenomenon of stupendous and unjustifiably useless extravagance. Yet here it lay, soft and powdery, edibly pure.
~ Michel Faber
The Leatherman was a lesbian phenomenon and life ran more smoothly because of it.
~ Michelle Tea
Even if the electrons are separated by many light-years, you instantly know the spin of the second electron as soon as you measure the spin of the first electron. In fact, you know this faster than the speed of light! Because these two electrons are "entangled
~ Michio Kaku
In fact, this spaghettification becomes so severe that even the atoms of your body get pulled apart and eventually disintegrate. To someone watching this remarkable event
~ Michio Kaku
For the spectator does not see space, he sees the objects and events; he does not perceive the coordinates with the same cyclopean eye of the camera. With his entire body, desires, and fantasies, he perceives the existential dimensions by which the world is organized.
~ Mikel Dufrenne
Today we use the word cult to describe a small group of extremists cut off from contact with the outside world by an all-controlling leader. People in antebellum America, however, struggled to find language for the phenomenon, largely because they had never seen anything quite like it before. As recent scholars have attested, "The historical record indicates that utopian and apocalyptic cults and communes first appeared as a major form in the United States during this epoch.
~ Miles Harvey
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
~ Milton Friedman
the right slit—and since
~ Brian Greene
Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.
~ Carl Sagan
Cuando la gravedad es lo bastante elevada no deja escapar nada, ni siquiera la luz. Un lugar así recibe el nombre de agujero negro. Es una especie de gato cósmico de Chesire, enigmáticamente indiferente a lo que le rodea.
~ Carl Sagan
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism. It indicates that the system has ceased to be as natural as the air we breathe, and can be seen instead as the historically rather recent phenomenon that it is.
~ Terry Eagleton
The universe required everything to be observed, lest it cease to exist.
~ Terry Pratchett