#phenomena

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#chaos #contrived #foothold #living #phenomena

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe. ↗

— Jules Romains

#category #history #human #phenomena #tends

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#any #change #conservative #contrast #could

Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works. ↗

— Uri Geller

#agencies #because #big #even #heads

The making of 'Naked' was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level. ↗

— David Thewlis

#career #different #different level #experience #film

Working with and collaborating with and for Peter Jackson was an incredible experience because he is such a phenomenal filmmaker. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#collaborating #experience #filmmaker #incredible #jackson

There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#cannot #companies #dance #deal #few

A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#bloom #fade #feel #full #know

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. ↗

— William Whewell

#only #phenomena #predict #test #theories

I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye. ↗

— Morris Graves

#external #external world #eye #i #inner