Phenomenon Quotes - Page 20

• To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

  David Hume

  Truth, Ignorance, Numbers

  David Hume (2003). “A Treatise of Human Nature”, p.201, Courier Corporation

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• When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.

  Jonas Salk

  Thinking, Polio Vaccine, Vaccines

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• every subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective, physical theory will abandon that point of view.

  Thomas Nagel

  Views, Subjectivity, Consciousness

  Thomas Nagel (2012). “Mortal Questions”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.

  Wheeler McMillen

  Government, Years, America

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• There's this phenomenon where people do like to announce movies that they think I'm doing that I'm not.

  James Franco

  Thinking, People

  "Danny McBride, James Franco Interview, Your Highness". Movies Online Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. August 28, 2018.

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• I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.

  Donald Cram

  Reading, Firsts, Looks

  Donald J. Cram (1990). “From Design to Discover :”, Amer Chemical Society

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• In the U.S.S.R. anti-semitism is punishable with the utmost severity of the law as a phenomenon deeply hostile to the Soviet system. Under U.S.S.R. law active anti-semites are liable to the death penalty.

  Joseph Stalin

  Law, Death Penalty, Liable

  Joseph Stalin (1952). “Works”

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• We're kind of an international phenomenon.

  Michael Stipe

  Kind, International

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• This immediate dependence of language upon nature, this conversion of an outward phenomenon into a type of somewhat in human life,never loses its power to affect us. It is this which gives that piquancy to the conversation of a strong-natured farmer or backwoodsman, which all men relish.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Men, Giving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Modern Library

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• Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Sex, May, Psychological

  Lillian B. Rubin (1991). “Erotic Wars: What Happened to the Sexual Revolution?”, HarperCollins

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• The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Space, Say Anything, Earth

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• People who mock rap and say, "I don't like it," they should go and check out Kanye [West] in the studio rapping, or Marshall, Eminem, when he's in the studio. It's a phenomenon. Don't knock it until you've seen it. It may not be your cup of tea, but don't ridicule it.

  Elton John

  Rap, People, Tea

  "Elton John, James McAvoy, Emily Blunt Interview, Gnomeo & Juliet". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. January 2011.

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• Black Americans should be given credit for finding probably the perfect weapon; the weapon of the song. And that song continues. Most holocausts don't, so they have this bitterness left over. The phenomenon of the world, as far as Black Americans are considered, is that we are not a bitter people.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Song, Perfect, People

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• I always resist seeing my own personal motivation in my work, but I guess it must be there on some level. And I do feel very much that my life follows the kinds of things I talk about in my books. I've always thought of myself as an insanely lucky person, so perhaps the success of my first two books led me to want to examine this phenomenon on some unconscious level.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivation, Book, Two

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• Many different factors make up a fitness phenomenon, but the most critical are a sense of community, a ton of fun, a sense of accomplishment, and an empowering component that makes people feel they can become or do anything they want.

  Jillian Michaels

  Fun, People, Accomplishment

  "Jillian Michaels Talks Fitness Fads and What Makes an Exercise Phenomenon". Interview with Lily Butler, studioatgizmodo.kinja.com. October 12, 2015.

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• The first Star Wars movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America.

  Ben Affleck

  Stars, War, America

  Interview with Gus Van Sant, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 11, 2012.

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• I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Kids, Ideas, Letters

  Interview with Arianna Huffington, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 22, 2011.

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• When we were shooting the movie, and of course in the editing room we had to make choices, but the shots fall almost exactly where we thought they would. They're not about content; they're never meant to be about what just happened. There's that weird phenomenon where the more you like a movie the more your mind wanders and goes all over the place.

  Philip Morrison

  Fall, Editing, Choices

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If you make something good, eventually the audience will be there, eventually there will be something on the Internet that is a cultural phenomenon that's not available anywhere else, that's not available on television broadcasts, that's not on cable, it's only on some Web site. And the world will find it. And when that happens, it will be what the 'kiss' was to the theatrical movie business, 5,000 years ago or whenever it was.

  Michael Eisner

  Kissing, Years, Television

  "On the web, content is king". Interview by Kai Ryssdal, www.marketplace.org. August 13, 2009.

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• I'm definitely a night owl. I get going about the time my wife crashes and goes to bed. And in some sense, I've had to learn to be more of a cat napper in recent years because Perl development, Perl design and development, has become a worldwide phenomenon - not just mailing lists, but RSC channels, Twitter even. This all happens 24 hours a day. And people come up with questions at any time of the day or night.

  Larry Wall

  Cat, Night, Years

  "How to Code Like Larry Wall". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• As things change in Turkey people find in religious observance a certain framework of safety, of continuity. This is quite a common phenomenon. In a strange way it's part of a democratization of society. Although religious observance seems more common these days, it's not that people who did not go to mosques have started to go to mosques. I don't know anyone in Turkey who's become a born-again Muslim. It's a question of individual choice, and it does not stop the organic secularization of Turkish society, which carries on regardless.

  Andrew Mango

  Religious, People, Safety

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• Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Light, Views

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• Most institutions of higher learning in the West were founded by and for religious denominations. The supposed alienation of education and faith is a recent phenomenon. At the same time, neither education nor the lack of it predisposes one to faith.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Religious, West, Denominations

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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• Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based on Marxist notions of "equality" and class conflict that have no relevance to mystical and biological phenomenon such as love.

  Henry Makow

  Class, Feminism, Female

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• A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inexplicable, Remains

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