“Many of those in the medical fraternity instantly label treatments in the traditional, natural or holistic health fields as quackery. This word is even used to describe Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Indian Ayerveda, two medical systems which are far older than Western medicine and globally just as popular.” TwoUsedNaturalFieldsMedicineWesternMedicalTraditionalLabelsChineseIndianTreatmentHolisticFraternityQuackeryChinese MedicineWestern Medicine Author:James Morcan
“The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.” HumansNaturalSocietyEventsFieldsBehaviorMethodHuman BehaviorNatural ScienceRegularity Author:Ludwig von Mises
“The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions.” WorldNaturalFieldsPerceptionSettingSettingsMy ThoughtsExplicit Book:Phenomenology of Perception Source: Phenomenology of Perception
“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindImportantBookStoriesSchoolYoungNaturalMy OwnFictionNovelSuccessfulMysteryFieldsAdventureRight NowStandardsHigh SchoolAdultsVictimYoung AdultTitlesAwardsSpainRegister Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.” BelieveChildrenWaterNaturalGoneHellFieldsPerceptionRainMurderBlessedCloudsInsaneMy ChildrenDryThirstThunderMessengersQuenchFresh WaterDistraughtWetness Author:Anna Akhmatova
“I was lucky to wander into evolutionary theory, one of the most exciting and important of all scientific fields. I had never heard of it when I started at a rather tender age; I was simply awed by dinosaurs. I thought paleontologists spent their lives digging up bones and putting them together, never venturing beyond the momentous issue of what connects to what. Then I discovered evolutionary theory. Ever since then, the duality of natural history-richness in particularities and potential union in underlying explanation-has propelled me.” ImportantAgeTogetherNaturalIssuesHeardAtheismFieldsTheoryLuckyExcitingUnionsBonesWanderExplanationRichnessDualityDiggingDinosaursNatural History Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are steering towards an order of things guaranteeing a process of a natural and reasonable selection in the domain of political leadership, thanks to which that leadership will be entrusted to the most competent, irrespective of their descent, name or fortune. The memorable words of the great Corsican that every soldier carries a Field Marshal's baton in his knapsack, will find its political complement in Germany.” Has BeensPoliticalOrderNamesProcessNaturalResultsDemocracyFieldsRevolutionFortuneSoldierThanksMemorableGermanyReasonableCarrieSelectionDomainCompetentDescentComplementSteeringBatonPolitical Leadership Author:Adolf Hitler
“My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.” NaturalMy OwnGenerationsFieldsMajorsTransformationTinySelectionPremisesNatural SelectionImmensityPaleontologyGeological Time Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.” WorldLooksCertainTermNaturalFieldsEatingHistorianCowsCornNatural World Author:Michael Pollan
“Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then natural philosophy became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time theres a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.” PhilosophyUsedNaturalFieldsAreasPhilosopherPhysicsUsed To BeLeapResentmentNatural Philosophy Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“I would like The Discovery of Poetry to be a field guide to the natural pleasures of language - a happiness we were born to have.” LanguageBornNaturalPleasureFieldsDiscoveryGuides Author:Frances Mayes
“So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.” MenLongNaturalAnimalEmotionStruggleFieldsDegreesWoundsDumbImpulseHonourCompassionateAnimal RightsSpidersButchers Author:John Newton
“Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of natural feeling, narrowing of the spiritual field of vision, destruction of all the deeper elements of character in man. The state can train subjects...but it can never develop free men who take their affairs into their own hands; for independent thought is the greatest danger that it has to fear.” MenHumansStatesCharacterFeelingsHandsSpiritualNaturalVisionSubjectsDangerFieldsPersonalityDevelopmentElementsDestructionIndependentTrainAffairDeeperAccomplishDullExtinctionHarmoniousFree ManCompletionDrillsCharacter DevelopmentIndependent ThoughtHuman PersonalityNatural Feelings Author:Rudolf Rocker
“To function effectively, the system scientist must know a considerable amount about the natural world AND about mathematics, without being an expert in either field. This is clearly a prescription for career disaster in today's world of ultra-high specialization.” KnowsWorldTodayNaturalCareersFieldsAmountScientistFunctionMathematicsDisasterExpertsNatural WorldPrescriptionsToday's WorldSpecializationUltras Author:John L. Casti
“In spite of all these disquieting triumphs in the field of natural science, it's astonishing how little man has learned about himself, and how much there is to learn. How little we know about this brain which made social evolution possible, and of the mind. How little we know of the nature and spirit of man and God. We stand now before this inner frontier of ignorance. If we could pass it, we might well discover the meaning of life and understand man's destiny.” IfsKnowsMenMindWellsLittlesMadeMightSpiritSocialNaturalBrainDestinyFieldsIgnoranceEvolutionTriumphMeaning Of LifeSpiteFrontiersAstonishingNatural ScienceLittle Man Author:Wilder Penfield
“Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law.” LawNaturalKnownOpinionFieldsDependsDataNatural Law Book:Handbook for Preclears Source: Handbook for Preclears
“Walking companions, like heroes, are difficult to pluck out of the crowd of acquaintances. Good dispositions, ready wit, friendly conversation serve well enough by the fireside but they prove insufficient in the field. For there you need transcendentalists-nothing less; you need poets, sages, humorists and natural philosophers.” NeedsWellsEnoughDifficultNaturalFieldsReadyPoetHeroWalkingConversationProvePhilosopherCrowdsWitFriendlyCompanionDispositionSageAcquaintanceHumoristsPluckInsufficient Author:Brooks Atkinson
“The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.” NaturalFieldsBirdEnlightenmentArgumentHistoricalFollowingDistinctionSuperstitionsEquationsScarecrow Author:N. T. Wright
“We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines and child soldiers in Africa, or more interesting than the world's biggest man-made natural disaster in oil fields of the Middle East.” MenWorldChildrenMadeImportantSelfStarsSexNaturalInterestingLandMiddleFieldsMinesSoldierPopsOilEastDisasterCapitalistMiddle EastStarvationIdioticPop StarsNatural DisasterSelf IndulgentOil FieldChild Soldier Author:Peter Menzel
“Since I turned the fields back to their natural state, I can't say I've had any really difficult problems with insects or disease.” I CanStatesProblemDifficultNaturalFieldsDiseaseInsectsDifficult Problems Author:Masanobu Fukuoka
“I'd come into town from the bush - after 28 years of field work in natural systems - and become an academic. So I turned my attention to humans, much as I had to possums in the forests.” YearsHumansNaturalAttentionFieldsTownsForestsAcademicPossums Author:Bill Mollison
“My oldest brother was stabbed thirty to forty times and strangled to death with his own belt when I was eight years old. Much of my life has been pockmarked with violence. So I had a natural interest in the topic, along with a strong home-field advantage.” YearsHas BeensHomeStrongInterestNaturalViolenceFieldsBrotherAdvantageEightThirtyFortyTopicsBelts Author:Jim Goad
“All the rich people collect traditional Chinese art. So it's very natural for Chinese families to still see art as the highest human performance and send their children to this field.” PeopleHumansChildrenArtStillsNaturalRichFieldsHighestPerformancesTraditionalChineseRich PeopleChinese Art Author:Ai Weiwei