Physical World Quotes

#1. Travelling, whether in the mental or the physical world, is a joy, and it is good to know that, in the mental world at least, there are vast countries still very imperfectly explored

Bertrand Russell

#2. If we want to help Google become something meaningfully different in the future, then that's more likely to happen if we focus on the physical world instead.

Astro Teller

#3. Two fixed ideas can no more exist together in the moral world than two bodies can occupy one and the same place in the physical world.

Alexander Pushkin

#4. The spiritual world is hidden and perfectly revealed in the physical world.

Richard Rohr

#5. Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

David Hestenes

#6. Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

Robert Smithson

#7. To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world ...

Nikola Tesla

#8. Without money, you are powerless in this world. You are totally subject to whatever happens. To be without money in the physical world is to be powerless.

Frederick Lenz

#9. There is the physical world that we live in, which we perceive through the senses, but there are other worlds. Right in front of you there are other worlds, right now. Those worlds are as real, if you will, as the physical world.

Frederick Lenz

#10. In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

Frederick Lenz

#11. In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. In a world described by quantum physics, an insistence on causal closure of the physical world amounts to a quasi-religious faith in the absolute powers of matter, a belief that is no more than a commitment to brute, and outmoded, materialism.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#13. The beast is the modern world that we live in! The material world. The physical world. The world of illusion that we think is real. We live for it; we're enslaved by it. And it will ultimately be our undoing.

Madonna Ciccone

#14. Between the borders of Faerie and the physical world stands an ancient forest where the trees are exceedingly tall; and although no longer visible to men, their roots go deep into its earth.

Gabriel Brunsdon

#15. In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.

Paul Valery

#16. What happens is when you start to believe it in here your brain starts to believe it out here in our physical world so you have to understand it is a reverse of what we have been taught. "When I see it I will believe it".

John Assaraf

#17. Not surprisingly, the social reality defined by a culture affects its conception of physical reality. What is real for an individual as a member of a culture is a product both of his social reality and of the way in which that shapes his experience of the physical world. Since

George Lakoff

#18. Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world.

Gary Zukav

#19. Meaning ... if enough people begin thinking the same thing, then the gravitational force of that thought becomes tangible ... and it exerts actual force." Katherine winked. "And it can have a measurable effect in our physical world.

Dan Brown

#20. Sounds are the echo of the "Harmony of the Spheres" which man took into himself when he came down from the divine-spiritual world into the physical world.

Rudolf Steiner

#21. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd

Greg Egan

#22. Children need to be exploring their physical world. They need to be learning the fundamental laws of physics by manipulating objects.

David Perlmutter

#23. Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

Julian Baggini

#24. His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world.

Andrew Hodges

#25. A higher rate of vibration always destroys the lower rate of vibration. If we have negative things that we don't want, we need a goal in higher order of vibration. The thing you hate is yours and the thing you love is also yours. If it's not in your physical world, it's present in your mental world.

Hina Hashmi

#26. Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#27. Nothing is what you imagine. Her mind hovered above this simple and alarming thought. The variables were too great, the particularities too distinct, life a flood of translations from the shadow-edged yearnings of the heart to the immutable aspects of the physical world.

Elizabeth Strout

#28. Ome INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world.

Christina Westover

#29. Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable us to obtain amazing new insights into the way in which nature operates.

Melvin Schwartz

#30. We're moving into an era when things are dematerialised and much more holographic. Floating above the physical world and the geographic map, there's another landscape that's constantly changing - something like a cloud - of communication, information, exchange and commerce.

Doug Aitken

#31. All these preparations clearly show that a human being must perfect himself in the physical world through his magical development in order to be prepared for the higher astral world after death.

Franz Bardon

#32. It often takes a period of time before what God has done in the spiritual world manifests in the physical world.

Andrew Wommack

#33. And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world.

Douglas Sirk

#34. Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance.

Tom Boellstorff

#35. It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world.

Hunter Shea

#36. I was introduced to lots of great music through my local record store. It was a place where people knew music and they knew me, and could make great suggestions and discoveries. Whether it is in the physical world or on-line, the value of a great and knowledgeable record store has not gone away

Peter Gabriel

#37. The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.

Charles Lindbergh

#38. What if the places you went and the things you encountered in your work were more interesting than what was available in the physical world around you?

Neal Stephenson

#39. The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.

Arthur Stanley Eddington

#40. In the way that I experience life, the physical world is really just the tip of the iceberg of reality. Whether it's trees or stones or water or animals or stars, everything has an ineffable interior quality.

Mark Nepo

#41. Long as a person will not raise his or her consciousness beyond the physical world to higher, spiritual realities, the soul's enslavement in darkness - whether darkness in the outer, physical world or in

Stephan A. Hoeller

#42. Great faith overcomes laws of nature that govern physical world.

Toba Beta

#43. The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.

Kenneth Myers

#44. We will continue to see a convergence of the digital and physical world. Those who conquer that trend will be market leaders.

John Phillips

#45. (1) irreversible processes are as real as reversible ones. (2) irreversible processes play a fundamental constructive role in the physical world. (3) irreversibility is deeply rooted in dynamics.

Ilya Prigogine

#46. The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions

Aldous Huxley

#47. Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.

Patrick Soon-Shiong

#48. A lot of actors on film sets ... very often they're not paying attention to the physical world around them. I think through studying art, I've always had that awareness and that's something that I've wanted to bring in to go beyond acting ... As a form of expression, they are intrinsically linked.

Andy Serkis

#49. I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#50. Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world.

Russell Eric Dobda

#51. A child with minimal video and TV exposure ... might be more naive about social ills but at the same time more sophisticated in inner direction, self-discipline, and the realities of her actual physical world.

Diane Medved

#52. A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the laws.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#53. I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

Angela Ahrendts

#54. In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

Nancy Pearcey

#55. If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends. If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.

Jeff Bezos

#56. If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought to the physical world.

Bob Proctor

#57. Every spiritual action manifests itself in the physical world by bringing concrete changes

Sunday Adelaja

#58. I don't know if nature is a direct literary influence on my writing, but it is certainly important to me. I take great joy in writing about it. It is something I have taken with me from my childhood; the body exposed to the threat of the physical world and at the same time being at home in it.

Per Petterson

#59. Act as if what you intend to manifest in life is already a reality. Eliminate thoughts of conditions, limitations, or the possibility of it not manifesting. If left undisturbed in your mind and in the mind of intention simultaneously, it will germinate in the physical world.

Wayne Dyer

#60. The two great agents of the physical world have become subject to the will of man and have been made subservient to his wants and enjoyments; I allude to steam and electricity, under whatever name the latter may be called.

John C. Calhoun

#61. The physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself.

Gary Shteyngart

#62. We do not live in several different, or even two different, worlds, a mental world and a physical world, a scientific world and a world of common sense. Rather, there is just one world; it is the world we all live in, and we need to account for how we exist as part of it.

John Searle

#63. It from Bit symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom an immaterial source and explanation ... that all things physical are information-theoretic in origin and that this is a participatory universe.

John Archibald Wheeler

#64. To me, what you want to do is find a way to let this play out between the virtual world and the physical world ... Ultimately, I think society will get there. It will be messy, but we'll get there.

Eric Schmidt

#65. We - each of us - are intricately, irremovably connected to the larger universe. It is our true home, and thinking that this physical world is all that matters is like shutting oneself up in a small closet and imagining that there is nothing else out beyond it.

Eben Alexander

#66. I don't take Twitter too seriously in the physical world.

Ilana Glazer

#67. Sir Arthur Eddington summed up the situation brilliantly in his book The Nature of the Physical World, published in 1929. "No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron," he said, and our best description of the atom boils down to "something unknown is doing we don't know what".

John Gribbin

#68. When you have the intuition that there is something which is there, but out of the reach of your physical world, art and religion are the only means to get to it.

Guillermo Del Toro

#69. The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Wayne Dyer

#70. The physical world is the point of departure from whence the magician works and upon which every human being, initiated or not, live and moves through his senses, his spirit, his soul and his physical body.

Franz Bardon

#71. A robot is an autonomous system which exists in the physical world, can sense its environment, and can ACT ON IT

Maja J. Mataric

#72. Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced to the fact that Mans knowledge of himself has not kept pace with his knowledge of the physical world.

Kurt Vonnegut

#73. No wonder most fleshers had stampeded into the polises, once they had the chance: if disease and aging weren't reason enough, there was gravity, friction, and inertia. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions.

Greg Egan

#74. Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world.

John Polkinghorne

#75. Sometimes what is 'real' because it takes place in the physical world, like 9/11, is so unreal on the level of the soul. Then other things, which in terms of the physical world seem so magical and unbelievable, on the level of the soul seem very real.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#76. The possibility of injury or death was a strong attraction: as the online world became more and more pre-edited and slicked up, and as even its so-called reality sites raised questions about authenticity in the minds of the viewers, the rough, unpolished physical world was taking on a mystic allure.

Margaret Atwood

#77. Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

Maria V. Snyder

#78. In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints ... and gods.

Steven Pinker

#79. Men have no excuse for not knowing about God because He has revealed Himself in man's conscience and in the physical world (Rom. 1:19, 20; 2:15).

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#80. Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.

Deepak Chopra

#81. Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.

Sylvia Plath

#82. The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

Vera Kistiakowsky

#83. Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Gottfried Leibniz

#84. Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Bruce Lipton

#85. During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized as series of horizontally shaped geometric planes that extent out into infinity.

Frederick Lenz

#86. I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.

Jok Church

#87. In the real, physical world or business world, most relationships are nonlinear.

Pearl Zhu

#88. The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.

Rumi

#89. So, in the physical world mankind are prone to seek an explanation of uncommon phenomena only, while the ordinary changes of nature, which are in themselves equally wonderful, are disregarded.

Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps

#90. Only those parts of the collective consciousness with strong, non-conflicting inner visions change the physical world. They simply will things into existence.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#91. Without the physical world, Ideas will not exist.

Joey Lawsin

#92. Human logic [emphasis added] was forced on us by the physical world and is therefore consistent with it. Mathematics derives from logic. This is why mathematics is consistent with the physical world.

Jef Raskin

#93. Newton's 3rd law of motion, every action has equal and opposite reaction, it doesn't just operate in Physical world. In good old days, it used to be called the Theory of Karma.

Kirtida Gautam

#94. So slip on your goggles and your reading trunks, for the sun is high. Let me leave you with one more thought. In what season of the year do we find ourselves - I'm speaking for a moment in terms of the physical world - wading through things? Surf. Kelp. Books. Summer.

Roy Blount Jr.

#95. ...concepts have three fundamental properties - contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction - which independent things do not. To produce a mental world from the physical world, the physical world must first explain how contextuality, intentionality, and abstraction can arise.

Ashish Dalela

#96. The web and physical world is plagued with abundance - people need help sorting through all the good and bad stuff out there. The tyranny of choice is causing major psychic pain and frustration for people.

Jason Calacanis

#97. The Internet is not a virtual world inhabited by avatars. It is a means of communication that offers people in the physical world a method to organize, act, and promote ideas and awareness.

Wael Ghonim

#98. The soul is the immortal part of us. It recycles, over and over again from what I've seen, but it never dies. We're meant to strive beyond the physical world, not ... not settle for it and only it ...

Alyson Noel

#99. THE MISCONCEPTION: Your opinions of people and events are based on objective evaluation. THE TRUTH: You translate your physical world into words, and then believe those words.

David McRaney

#100. For pain is perhaps but a violent pleasure? Who could determine the point where pleasure becomes pain, where pain is still a pleasure? Is not the utmost brightness of the ideal world soothing to us, while the lightest shadows of the physical world annoy?

Honore De Balzac