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  • All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. -- William Ralph Inge
  • 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
  • If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur. -- Rudy Rucker
  • It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths. -- James D. Watson
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists. -- Hermann von Helmholtz
  • When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental method and the refusal to believe any explanation of natural phenomena that could not be proven to the satisfaction of the empirical observer. -- Sherwin B. Nuland
  • As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results. -- Martin Filler
  • With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena. -- Will Self
  • The number of natural hypothesis that can explain any given phenomena is infinite. -- Albert Einstein
  • Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. -- Mary Hunter Austin
  • I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. -- Edgard Varese
  • There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. -- Julian Huxley
  • Electricity is the power that causes all natural phenomena not known to be caused by something else -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena. -- Albertus Magnus
  • Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future. -- Hugo Gernsback
  • Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud. -- George Sand
  • Eternal truths are ultimately invisible, and you won't find them in material things or natural phenomena, or even in human emotions. -- Yoko Ogawa
  • 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
  • All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. -- William Ralph Inge
  • The Goal of Science is understanding lawful relations among natural phenomena. Religion is a way of life within a larger framework of meaning. -- Ian Barbour
  • Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. -- Maurice Kendall
  • Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hawk in flight will know that this is one of the natural world's most elegant phenomena. -- John Burnside
  • 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
  • Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
  • 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
  • There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle -- Michael Faraday
  • Science is not a thing. It's a verb. It's a way of thinking about things. It's a way of looking for natural explanations for all phenomena. -- Michael Shermer
  • 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
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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
  • 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
  • The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events. -- Emma Goldman
  • The man whose acquaintance with the world does not lead him deeper than science leads him, will never understand what it is that the man with the spiritual vision finds in these natural phenomena. -- Rabindranath Tagore
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