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.
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A poet must be a psychologist, but a secret one: he should know and feel the roots of phenomena but present only the phenomena themselves in full bloom or as they fade away.
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Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
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Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
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The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
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There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.
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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.
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Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world.
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She- The Unforgetable
ALONE IN THE DARK WINTER,
LONG PAST YEARS SEEING HER.
WHAT I DO DON'T KNOW,
ONLY WANT HER TO MY LOVE, SHOW.
WITH NATURAL OCCURING PHENOMENA,
I DIDN'T WANT TO ENTER THIS ARENA.
WHERE ONLY ONE NAME RULES THE HEART,
ONLY ONE PERSON KNOWS THAT ART.
SHE IS UNKNOWN THUS I WONDER,
SEEING ANYONE LOVE MAY OCCUR.
IT'S NOT AS SIMPLE AS IT SEEMS,
FOR THIS I SEE WHOLE THE GLIMPSE.
WHEN SHE WILL APPEAR BEFORE ME,
I HAVE COURAGE TO SAY'LET IT BE'.
IF SHE WOULD GIVE ME HER LOVE,
I WILL EVEN RETURN FROM ABOVE.
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I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena.
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The chess board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But we also know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.
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All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.
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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.
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I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
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Hence, even in the domain of natural science the aid of the experimental method becomes indispensable whenever the problem set is the analysis of transient and impermanent phenomena, and not merely the observation of persistent and relatively constant objects.
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
Nowadays even presidents, vice-presidents, and heads of big agencies are opening their minds to accept psychic phenomena, because they know it works.
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Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
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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.
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