Timothy Morton

Psychologism holds that logical assertions are percolations of brains. Thus logic is a set of rules for how healthy brains operate. Aside from the infinite regress of a brain determining whether a brain is healthy, we have the infinite regress of the idea 'All concepts are brain percolations' being itself a brain percolation, on its own terms.

English Philosopher

Matthew Walker

I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.

English Scientist

Richard Russo

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.

American Novelist

Vernor Vinge

When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.

American Writer

Sharad Pawar

The agriculture ministry has to see that their good research percolates down to the fields through the state agricultural departments and the 70-odd state agricultural universities.

Indian Politician

Nancy Pickard

I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

Bruce Vilanch

It's the biggest party in the world, and you have to keep the whole thing percolating, which is difficult because a lot of awards most people don't care about.

American Comedian

Joy Mangano

I'll see somebody struggling with something, and it doesn't matter if it's ironing or mopping or traveling, my brain just starts to percolate.

American Inventor

Andrew Lo

Ideas percolate. Through natural selection, the best ones survive.

Economist

Stacey Abrams

I like to take information in and let it percolate.

American Politician

Used to describe how liquids move through natural materials.

Natural Processes

Emphasizes the gradual, often slow pace of filtering.

Slow Movement

The process might not be visible unless the surface is transparent.

Visibility

Describes how knowledge or news can move within a group.

Information Spread

Ideas or feelings taking time to become clear in one's mind.

Gradual Understanding

Use it to contrast with things happening suddenly or all at once.

Not Instantaneous

Specific to the process of brewing coffee in a certain type of pot.

Coffee Making

Associated with a habitual, often social, coffee-making tradition.

Cultural Ritual

Alludes to coffee being made to a certain taste preference.

Taste Expectation

 and wastes from inside the brain make their way out to the CSF, which gets dumped, along with the waste, into the blood. So in that way, it sounds a lot like the lymphatic system, doesn't it? But what's interesting is that the fluid and the waste from inside the brain, they don't just percolate their way randomly

One more reason to get a...

 It creates a reservoir under the surface. Think of it as a pot where you boil your water underground, right? You send a fluid down, it percolates through the fractures. It comes back up really hot, and we use it for all sorts of interesting and important things like heating buildings directly.

Jamie C. Beard: The...

 Walk around for four months with three wishes, and all the ideas will start to percolate up. I think everybody should do it -- think that you've got three wishes. And what would you do? It's actually a great exercise to really drill down to the things that you feel are important,

Edward Burtynsky:...

 and understand how it works and how the ideas percolate down from government into society and culture, into families, into individuals, into their beliefs and back around again in a cycle. What I love about this image is it's made up of concepts, it explores our worldviews

The beauty of data...

 have this distorted view of how a decent loving relationship must start and then people do this thing okay I have didn't Europe you made such an important point there because if we give the view of love and romance that we want to be true and that's what percolates then we

In Defense of the...

 how the ideas percolate down from government into society and culture into families into individuals instead beliefs and background again in a cycle what I love about this image is it's it's made up of concepts it explores our worldviews and it helps us it helps me anyway

 primarily it's cedar we took out a great portion of it here on the ranch we were discovered with it we had no grass when we took out the cedar and spread native grass seeds and it began to grow rainfall then percolated into the earth

50 Years Ago, This Was a...

 If you're lucky enough to decide the pace that you want to travel through life, it's a privilege. Use it. You might decide that you need both to speed up and to create slow time to reflect, to percolate

The unforeseen...

 Which raises the in the next 100 million years, silica-rich water will percolate through the nooks and crannies of some of the discarded artifacts of human civilization.

The most colorful...

 distance the basis for that syllabus would not just be resident in academic in the anatomy it would have to percolate to the heart

Percolate