“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
“It can hardly be pressed forcibly enough on the attention of the student of nature, that there is scarcely any natural phenomenon which can be fully and completely explained, in all its circumstances, without a union of several, perhaps of all, the sciences.” EnoughScienceNatureNaturalAttentionStudentsCircumstancesUnionsPhenomenonNatural Phenomena Book:Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy Source: Preliminary discourse on the study of natural philosophy
“To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being a spectacle presented to his intelligent observation; whereas the events of history are never mere phenomena, never mere spectacles for contemplation, but things which the historian looks, not at, but through, to discern the thought within them.” LooksRealityScienceNatureNaturalHistoryEventsScientistIntelligentMereObservationContemplationPhenomenonHistorianDefectiveSpectacles Author:Robin G. Collingwood