#familia

Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add. ↗

— Nelson Goodman

#add #artist #cognitive #coming #hear

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer. ↗

— Brian Greene

#answer #attaining #best #deepest #familiarity

It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere. ↗

— Victor Francis Hess

#atmosphere #before #consist #cosmic #cosmic rays

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#ceases #commonplaces #everything #familiar #miracles

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time. ↗

— John Leguizamo

#brilliant #carpenter #cop #did #familiar

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #both #central #coasts #containing

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds. ↗

— Alice Meynell

#crowds #eyes #familiar #human #loneliness

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult to appreciate. ↗

— Peter D. Mitchell

#colleagues #difficult #especially #find #his

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#call #ease #everything #familiar #feel

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. ↗

— Joe Orton

#body #envy #familiar #fifteen #i