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Quotes About Phenomenon

If it wriggles, it's biology. If it smells, it's chemistry. And if it doesn't work, it's physics.
~ Giles Sparrow
Conceptual integration is at the heart of imagination. It connects input spaces, projects selectively to a blended space, and develops emergent structure through composition, completion, and elaboration in the blend. This fundamental cognitive operation has not previously been studied. What would it mean to study this operation? Is it enough to recognize the phenomenon and describe it broadly? Should this book end here? What is left to do?
~ Gilles Fauconnier
silos are fundamentally a cultural phenomenon. They arise because social groups and organizations have particular conventions about how to classify the world.
~ Gillian Tett
Darkness now is pure phenomenon, nothing to do with him. This is the final relationship with the universe: you find solace only in things that offer none.
~ Glen Duncan
Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option but a necessity imposed on all human activity.
~ Jacques Ellul
To be sure, the hard-to-come-by interview - the 'get' - isn't an uncommon phenomenon here at 'The Daily Show.' We've had high-profile dignitaries, low-profile indignitaries, stars you've heard of, authors you should have read.
~ Kevin Bleyer
It's an uncommon phenomenon, but Mahesh's popularity has never been dictated by the success of his films.
~ Namrata Shirodkar
At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.
~ Tiesto
When I was doing dancehalls, nobody was doing well in dancehalls. Dancehalls was not mainstream music that was blazing charts and knocking down barriers. This was an underground phenom.
~ Shaggy
I think telepathy exists, and I think quantum physics will help us understand its basic properties.
~ Brian Josephson
Myths are stories that explain a natural phenomenon. Before humans found scientific explanations for such things as the moon and the sun and rainbows, they tried to understand them by telling stories.
~ Jane Yolen
For me, I guess the main motivation is the satisfaction of finally understanding some tricky mathematical concept or phenomenon and then explaining it to others.
~ Terence Tao
Messi is just an anomaly: he can dribble, he can score, he can pass, he has the vision, he understands the game.
~ Edgar Davids
The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.
~ Elbert Hubbard
I think race and racism is probably the most studied social, economic, and political phenomenon in this country, but it's also the least understood.
~ Alicia Garza
Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.
~ Elie Metchnikoff
The bubble, as investing phenomenon, has been well studied ever since the 17th-century tulip bulb frenzy. Its counterpart in bear markets is not well understood.
~ Kenneth Fisher
Human intelligence is a marvelous, subtle, and poorly understood phenomenon. There is no danger of duplicating it anytime soon.
~ Mitch Kapor
Wannabe was so huge. So big. So unexpected.
~ Patrick Cox
If the most High grant thee to live, thou shall see after the third trumpet that the sun shall suddenly shine again in the night, and the moon thrice in the day:
~ Compton Gage
Humanity is a very interesting phenomenon. If you peel back the layers, if you're brave enough, you realize it's something that's not for the faint of heart-" Angel M.B. Chadwick
~ Angel M.B. Chadwick
Never in a million years did I think the sport of poker would blow up the way it did.
~ Chris Moneymaker
It's amazing that K-pop is spreading around the world as a culture in itself.
~ Jennie
The union of theorizer, organizer, and leader in one man is the rarest phenomenon on earth; therein lies greatness.
~ Adolf Hitler