Natural Phenomena Quotes

• Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hands, Miracle, Surround

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2302, e-artnow

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• Life is not a miracle. It is a natural phenomenon, and can be expected to appear whenever there is a planet whose conditions duplicate those of the earth.

  Harold Urey

  Science, Miracle, Earth

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Thinking, Fairy Tale, Scientist

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Fairy Stories, Hair

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse, November 30, 1936.

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• Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.

  Kathleen Norris

  Events, Attention, Pay

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• The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Lying, Desire

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• Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

  Louis Pasteur

  Essence, Answers, Natural

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• Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

  George Sand

  Stars, Lakes, Clouds

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (2015). “The Correspondence of George Sand and Gustave Flaubert: Collected Letters of the Most Influential French Authors”, p.218, e-artnow

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• Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Block, Men

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.345, Univ of California Press

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• The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.

  Paul Dirac

  Math, Practice, Data

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• From the earliest times man has been engaged in a search for general rules whereby to turn the order of natural phenomena to his own advantage, and in the long search he has scraped together a great hoard of such maxims, some of them golden and some of them mere dross. The true or golden rules constitute the body of applied science which we call the arts; the false are magic.

  James G. Frazer

  Art, Men, Order

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

  Rex Stout

  Thinking, Ideas, People

  "Author Rex Stout vs. the F.B.I." by Sandra Schmidt in Life magazine (p. 132), December 10, 1965.

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• Human behavior is subject to the same laws as any other natural phenomenon. Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture. No one is born with greed, prejudice, bigotry, patriotism and hatred; these are all learned behavior patterns. If the environment is unaltered, similar behavior will reoccur.

  Jacque Fresco

  Nature, Hate, Learning

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• Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Emotion, Invisible, Natural

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.116, Picador

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• I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders.

  Art Spiegelman

  Tree, Boulders, Natural

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• This 'flying saucer' situation is not at all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around. The phenomenon is something real and not visionary or fictitious.

  Nathan Farragut Twining

  Real, Flying, Visionaries

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• In the East, we have developed a science: if you cannot find a soul mate, you can create one. And that science is Tantra. To find a soul mate means to find the person with whom all your seven centers meet naturally. That is impossible. Once in a while, a Krishna and a Radha, a Shiva and a Shakti. And when it happens it is tremendously beautiful. But it is like lightning - you cannot depend on it. If you want to read your Bible, you can't depend on it that when the lightning is there you will read. The lightning is a natural phenomenon, but not dependable.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Mean, Soul

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• Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else

  Ambrose Bierce

  Home, Energy, Causes

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.53, 谷月社

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• Atheism is based upon a materialist philosophy, which holds that nothing exists but natural phenomena. There are no supernatural forces or entities, nor can there be any. Nature simply exists.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Philosophy, Supernatural Forces, Religion

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• The greenhouse effect of carbon-dioxide emissions does produce gentle warming if it is not counteracted by unpredictable natural phenomena, but it cannot be measured directly against the volume of such emissions.

  Conrad Black

  Doe, Natural, Volume

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• Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend, but that pretension makes you a hypocrite. And your pretension cannot deceive the woman, because she has known your love and the pretension cannot become the substitute. The only way is to separate - in friendship, because you have given each other so much.

  Rajneesh

  Marriage, Hypocrite, Arbitrary

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• With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Expression

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Kandinsky”, p.59, Parkstone International

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• We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

  Max Bill

  Art, Natural, Resources

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• Since the most ancient times, all men, and particularly those who endeavored in the practice of medicine, have brought closer together two natural phenomena of capital importance: illness or fever and fermentation.

  Louis Pasteur

  Men, Practice Of Medicine, Two

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• How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Intellectual, Important

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.66, Yale University Press

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