Scientific Phenomena Named After People
This is a list of scientific phenomena and concepts named after people (eponymous phenomena). For other lists of eponyms, see eponym.
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Famous quotes containing the words scientific, phenomena, named and/or people:
“The aggregate of all knowledge has not yet become culture in us. Rather it would seem as if, with the progressive scientific penetration and dissection of reality, the foundations of our thinking grow ever more precarious and unstable.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [a sheep].”
—Plutarch (46–120)
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)