“The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the Babylonian exile wanted to learn all the details. ...Isaiah was so familiar with it that he did not consider it necessary to communicate it to others as a new thing, especially as it was well known to the intelligent.” WellsWantedKnownLordSawsGenerationsAccountsIntelligentDetailsCommunicateFamiliarDescriptionNew ThingsWell KnownExile Author:Maimonides
“We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is.” KnowsShouldMatterUniverseEnergyDarkShould HaveAccountsFamiliarGravityDark MatterMatter And Energy Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.” ThinkingKnowsWayIdeasFactsFormUsedUnderstandingAcceptingKnowingUnderstoodAccountsAssumingFamiliarUsed To BeAnalysisThoughtfulDeceivingPros And Cons Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them.” WritingUseHateStuffPagesAccountsI HateFamiliarFacebook PagePersonal Stuff Author:Elon Musk
“We cannot enter into alliance with neighbouring princes until we are acquainted with their designs. We are not fit to lead an army on the march unless we are familiar with the face of the country - its mountains and forests, its pitfalls and precipices, its marshes and swamps. We shall be unable to turn natural advantages to account unless we make use of local guides.” ArtWarCountryUseFacesTurnsNaturalDesignFitMountainAdvantageAccountsArmyGuidesLocalsForestsFamiliarMarchArt Of WarAlliancesSwampsPrecipicePitfallsMarshes Book:The Complete Art of War Source: The Complete Art of War
“I thought I would keep it on the ground until I became familiar with it, but on account of the wind, I unexpectedly took to the air, and the first thing I knew, I was flying.” FirstsAirWindAccountsFlyingFamiliarAviationAirplane Author:Arthur P. Warner
“Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications. Its wonders may be catalogued for purposes of education, they may be illustrated by arresting experiments, by numbers and magnitudes which startle or fatigue the imagination but they will form no familiar portion of the intellectual furniture of ordinary men unless they be connected, however remotely, with the conduct of ordinary life.” MenMayFormSciencePurposeImaginationNumbersEducationWonderSafeIntellectualOrdinaryAccountsConnectedPracticalsExperimentsFamiliarApplicationPortionsFurnitureParallelsFatigueMagnitudeOrdinary LifeOrdinary ManPurpose Of EducationArresting Author:Arthur Balfour
“The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists adopt new instruments and look in new places. even more important, during revolutions, scientists see new and different things when looking with familiar instruments in places they have looked before. It is rather as if the professional community had been suddenly transported to another planet where familiar objects are seen in a different light and are joined by unfamiliar ones as well.” IfsWorldWellsLooksMayImportantDifferentLightScienceCommunityObjectsPlanetsRevolutionScientistAccountsClaimsInstrumentsFamiliarTemptationChanging The WorldDifferent ThingsHistorianTemptedParadigmUnfamiliarNew Places Author:Thomas Kuhn
“The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet the latter is also conditioned greatly by the former. Thus in our exploration of nature, the interplay between our concepts and our observations may sometimes lead to totally unexpected aspects among already familiar phenomena.” MaySometimesScienceUniverseNatureNaturalResultsProgressConceptsAspectAccountsFamiliarObservationFormerEvolveUnexpectedLatterExploration Author:Tsung-Dao Lee