“In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities.” MayStruggleEventsBoundariesPhenomenonUnpredictableGeneralitiesHistory Of Life Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
“Unlike the position that exists in the physical sciences, in economics and other disciplines that deal with essentially complex phenomena, the aspects of the events to be accounted for about which we can get quantitative data are necessarily limited and may not include the important ones.” MayImportantDealsEventsPositionDisciplineAspectEconomicsComplexesDataPhenomenonPhysical Science Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.” HumansBodyIndividualEventsDiversityEternalFemaleUniversalMalesGenderConsistentPhenomenonDividesHighlightsSingularityWomen's BodiesChildbearing Book:Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown Source: Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown
“The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.” NatureCenturyEventsPhenomenonSplendidTwentieth Century Author:Gertrude Stein
“The most fearful phenomenon of these midcentury years is not the atom bomb; atomic energy does have its constructive possibilities.... The most fearful event of these times is the colossal expansion of the government of the United States and the constant increase of executive power within the government.” YearsDoeStatesGovernmentAmericaEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEventsPossibilityIncreaseConstantBombsExecutivesPhenomenonAtomsFearfulExpansionConstructiveColossalAtom BombAtomic EnergyExecutive Power Author:Wheeler McMillen
“In one of the most brilliant papers in the English language Hume made it clear that what we speak of as 'causality' is nothing more than the phenomenon of repetition. When we mix sulphur with saltpeter and charcoal we always get gunpowder. This is true of every event subsumed by a causal law in other words, everything which can be called scientific knowledge. "It is custom which rules ," Hume said, and in that one sentence undermined both science and philosophy .” MadeSaidPhilosophyLawSpeakLanguageClearEventsPaperSentencesBrilliantMade ItPhenomenonCustomsRepetitionPapersEnglish LanguageScientific KnowledgeCausalityOne SentenceGunpowderCharcoalHumeScience And Philosophy Author:Philip K. Dick
“Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind.” NaturalPayAttentionAwarenessEventsObjectsPhenomenonGrindNatural PhenomenaDaily Grind Author:Kathleen Norris