Phenomenon Quotes

• Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is.

  

  Evan Davis
  • Evidence
  • Regardless
  • Adrenalin

• Our alleged facts might be true in all kinds of ways without contradicting any truth already known. I will dwell now on only one possible line of explanation, - not that I see any way of elucidating all the new phenomena I regard as genuine, but because it seems probable I may shed a light on some of those phenomena. All the phenomena of the universe are presumably in some way continuous; and certain facts, plucked as it were from the very heart of nature, are likely to be of use in our gradual discovery of facts which lie deeper still.

  

  William Crookes
  • Universe
  • Discovery
  • Explanation

• Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.

  

  Sidney Altman
  • Phenomenon
  • Hypothesis
  • Instances

• Now, democracy should be robust but it certainly shouldn't be violent, and I think the Donald Trump phenomenon is a real problem for the United States, making their democracy look kind of weird.

  

  Christopher Pyne
  • Democracy
  • Weird
  • United States

• The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Nature
  • Knowledge
  • Choose

• It's a phenomenon that I see with young actors - a lot of American speaking parts going to British actors.

  

  Michael Douglas
  • Actors
  • British actors
  • American speaking

• Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Life
  • Phenomenon
  • Wondrous

• Yoga is a spectacularly multifaceted phenomenon, and as such is very difficult to define because there are exceptions to every conceivable rule.

  

  Georg Feuerstein
  • Difficult
  • Yoga
  • Phenomenon

• I think social media is a revolutionary phenomenon all in itself.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Media
  • Social
  • Revolutionary

• Even people who loved our music really didn't know anything about us. We were never glamorous. We were never a phenomenon.

  

  Bob Gaudio
  • Music
  • Loved
  • Glamorous

• To look at infidelity from the point of view of sex is a complete narrowing of the phenomenon. There's a reason that the commandment is repeated twice in the Bible - once for doing it and once for thinking about it. We have always created structures and broken structures. It is essential to the human spirit.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Reason
  • Spirit
  • Broken

• Cancer is not something confined to human beings. It's found in all multi cellular organisms where the adult cells proliferate, so it's widespread in the biosphere. It's a phenomenon that is deeply related to the history of life itself, so by studying cancer I think we can illuminate the history of life itself and vice versa.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Thinking
  • Study
  • Cancer

• Climate has always changed year on year and is unstoppable as a phenomenon. I am sceptical of the evidence being presented as fact and do NOT believe that the interference by Government will have much affect on changing temperatures or rainfall. Indeed as a gardener in the West of Scotland I look forward to warmer temperatures and more rain so will be doing nothing as an individual that can in any event be seen as tokenism to a perceived problem.

  

  Brian Donohoe
  • Government
  • Climate
  • Phenomenon

• Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

  

  Richard O'Brien
  • Saying
  • Involved
  • Goodbye

• Education is a self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.

  

  Sugata Mitra
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Phenomenon

• It's a truly mysterious and marvelous phenomenon. It's hard to describe.

  

  Chip Taylor
  • Hard
  • Mysterious
  • Describe

• Certainly there's a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Source
  • Software
  • Area

• 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
  • Dinner
  • Twitter

• There’s so much distance between the fundamental rules and the final phenomenon, that it’s almost unbelievable that the final variety of phenomenon can come from such a steady operation of such simple rules.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Simple
  • Distance
  • Unbelievable

• I say the elite looks out of touch because it's kind of saying; look we'll manage all this for you. You know, we know best. We'll sort it all out for you. And then because people believe that doesn't meet their case for change and they want real change, social media and the way the relationship between people can come into a sense of belonging very quickly, that then is itself a revolutionary phenomenon. You see this around the world.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of religion. Ritual is a symbolic transformation of experiences that no other medium can adequately express.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Language
  • Magic
  • Transformation

• Fortunately, both governments have been in favor of studying the Mexican migration problem in greater depth. For the first time, I think, we will have something scientifically sound that says something about this phenomenon. The study is ongoing, and I hope that, with a push from both of us, it will provide a sound basis for serious public discussion on the migration issue.

  

  Ernesto Zedillo
  • Problem
  • Governments
  • I Hope

• In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Beginning
  • Remains
  • Phenomenon

• I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Young
  • Embrace
  • YouTube

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