#processes

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#attempt #entirely #far #game #get

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#going #gravity #lot #minimize #other

Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. ↗

— Yuan T. Lee

#better #chemical #continued #control #detailed

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. ↗

— Daniel Pipes

#diplomacy #does #due #end #general

Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed. ↗

— Henry Reed

#dreams #existed #formed #freud #identifiable

Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#appraisal #decision-making #effectively #essential #interests

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#mental #mental processes #physical #processes #things

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#goal #himself #his #loses #man

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart. ↗

— Hans Berger

#continuous #exactly #heart #individual #nerve

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#distant #feel #hard #huge #individually