#phenomena

The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#game #hidden #laws #nature #other

All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena. ↗

— Dean Inge

#behind #consists #essentially #faith #natural

Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#artists #athletes #certainly #dance #phenomenal

The basic problem is that web 2.0 tools are not supportive of democracy by design. They are tools designed to gather spy-agency-like data in a seductive way, first and foremost, but as a side effect they tend to provide software support for mob-like phenomena. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#data #democracy #design #designed #effect

It was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going. ↗

— James Levine

#going #had #honeymoon #just #kept

People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really. ↗

— Jerry Zucker

#asking #believe #ghosts #i #i believe

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole. ↗

— Johannes Stark

#atom #chemical #discovery #fact #individual

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota. ↗

— Bill Janklow

#company #dakota #employed #gotten #intern

I'm a big fan of huge populations of people, so you'd think with 300 million people in the country, you don't even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#big fan #country #even #fan #huge

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

#computations #computer #computer science #effect #kinds