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“When common sense sees a puzzling phenomenon it looks for a causal agent. When it sees organization it looks for an organizer. This works amazingly well for purposes ranging from the diagnosis of diseases to the creation of governments. But it cannot account for emergence ... the appearance of complex phenomena not predictable from the basic elements and processes alone.”

Source: Education and Mind in the Knowledge Age

“I don't have a Facebook or a Twitter account, and I don't know how I feel about this idea of, "Now, I'm eating dinner, and I want everyone to know that I'm having dinner at this time." or "I just mailed a letter and dropped off my kids." That, to me, is a very strange phenomenon.”

Knows Want Feels Ideas Kids Know How Strange Eating Letters Accounts Dinner Phenomenon Eating Dinner Strange Phenomena

Author:Scarlett Johansson

“The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."”

People Mind Millions Strange Negative Accounts Luck Impulse Destructive Phenomenon Misfortunes Translate Subconscious Constructive Bad Luck Subconscious Mind Strange Phenomena

Book:Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition

“How can Hitler, or some other murderer, appear in this world? I don't think any single theory can account for the phenomenon, and I think it's a mistake to try to reduce it to being brutalized by your parents or having grown up in some horrible situation - like Charles Manson.”

Thinking World Trying Parent Mistake Situation This World Theory Accounts Horrible Phenomenon Murderer Manson

Author:James Hillman

“That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.”

Should Country Hands Would Be Age America Science Freedom Youth Accounts Enthusiasm Lifts Phenomenon Monstrous

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?”

Men Has Beens Made Ends Facts Past Science Universe History Development Tasks Accounts Missions Cease Phenomenon Phases Examination Past Life Classification

Book:The Grammar of Science

Source: The Grammar of Science

“Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.”

Long Made Science Periods Accounts Inevitable Phenomenon Measurement Long Periods Of Time Refining

Author:Charles Francis Richter