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A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
Marie Curie
Natural
Impress
Though
He
Mere
Tales
Also
Him
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Scientist
Were
His
Laboratory
Child
Natural Phenomena
Confronting
Technician
Phenomena
I then endeavoured to show that it is more especially in the thorough conformity with law which natural phenomena and natural products exhibit, and in the comparative ease with which laws can be stated, that this difference exists.
Hermann von Helmholtz
Natural
Law
Stated
Thorough
Ease
Laws
More
Exhibit
Exists
Difference
Which
Conformity
Natural Phenomena
Then
Show
Products
Comparative
Phenomena
It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths.
James D. Watson
Science
Natural
Back
Possibly
Religious
Religious Beliefs
Date
Could
Inspiring
Myths
Times
Scripture
Natural Phenomena
Many
Beliefs
Phenomena
Coincidence
The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori
Teacher
Natural
Lie
Must
Only
Observe
Observer
Feel
Understand
Natural Phenomena
Capacity
Derive
Activity
Her
Phenomena
Desire
Phenomenon
Position
We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.
Max Bill
Art
Natural
Words
Other
Resources
Rules
Those
Borrowing
Abstraction
Call
Without
Concrete
Came
Being
In Other Words
Transforming
Natural Phenomena
Inherent
Works
Phenomena
External
Basis
I'm wide open to evidence of the supernatural, but I also think that the majority of those experiences are probably natural phenomena we don't understand just yet.
Mike Flanagan
Natural
Think
Evidence
Those
Supernatural
Open
Also
Majority
Understand
Just
Experiences
Natural Phenomena
Wide
Phenomena
When I would hear the rabbi tell about some miracle such as a bush whose leaves were shaking but there wasn't any wind, I would try to fit the miracle into the real world and explain it in terms of natural phenomena.
Richard P. Feynman
Natural
World
Try
Wind
Tell
Would
Some
Miracle
About
Shaking
Terms
Real
Leaves
Were
Hear
Fit
Any
The Real World
Real World
Rabbi
Explain
Bush
Natural Phenomena
Whose
Phenomena
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
Rudy Rucker
Science
Natural
Computer Science
Tell
Kinds
About
Computation
Computer
Study
Suppose
Occur
Effect
Natural Phenomena
Us
Many
Phenomena
With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.
Wassily Kandinsky
Music
Art
Soul
Natural
Few
Musical
Has-Been
Some
Rather
Exceptions
Devoted
Sound
Been
Itself
Artist
Reproduction
Which
Centuries
Natural Phenomena
Expression
Phenomena
With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.
Will Self
Natural
Anxiety
Events
Become
Apprehend
Our
Constantly
Threats
More
Mortality
Taking
Reminded
Also
Error
Up
Begun
May
Human
While
Available
Human Error
Them
Natural Phenomena
Much
Functions
Spectacular
Phenomena
Need
All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
William Inge
Faith
Spiritual
Natural
World
Values
Consists
Recognition
Behind
Essentially
Apart
Natural Phenomena
Phenomena