Top 100 Quotes About The Physical World
#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 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world.
Gary Zukav
#17. 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
#18. The physical world was one vast, tangled obstacle course of pointless, arbitrary restrictions. We'd
Greg Egan
#19. Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.
Julian Baggini
#20. His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world.
Andrew Hodges
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. It often takes a period of time before what God has done in the spiritual world manifests in the physical world.
Andrew Wommack
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. It was one thing to talk about ghosts, quite another to have them messing around with things in the physical world.
Hunter Shea
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. The physical world is entirely abstract and without actuality apart from its linkage to consciousness.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. The physical world is too good a gift to be reduced to an object lesson about 'spiritual things'.
Kenneth Myers
#37. (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
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. Mainfest your fate on a daily basis though intention in the non-physical world and action in the physical world.
Russell Eric Dobda
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought to the physical world.
Bob Proctor
#47. Every spiritual action manifests itself in the physical world by bringing concrete changes
Sunday Adelaja
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. The physical world is the only salvation from a mind constantly churning away at itself.
Gary Shteyngart
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. I don't take Twitter too seriously in the physical world.
Ilana Glazer
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. A robot is an autonomous system which exists in the physical world, can sense its environment, and can ACT ON IT
Maja J. Mataric
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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.
#66. Our essential nature is pure consciousness, the infinite source of everything that exists in the physical world.
Deepak Chopra
#67. 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
#68. The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.
Vera Kistiakowsky
#69. 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
#70. I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.
Jok Church
#71. The mind says there is nothing beyond the physical world; the HEART says there is, and I've been there many times.
Rumi
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. Without the physical world, Ideas will not exist.
Joey Lawsin
#75. 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
#76. 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.
#77. ...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
#78. 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
#79. Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
Aaron Koblin
#81. The universe is not a world of separate things and events but is a cosmos that is connected and coherent. The physical world and spiritual experience are both aspects of the same reality and man and the universe were one
Alexis Karpouzos
#82. Written words differ from spoken words in being material structures. A spoken word is a process in the physical world, having an essential time-order; a written word is a series of pieces of matter, having an essential space-order.
Bertrand Russell
#83. We can trace the operation of evil in the physical world ... but I am more and more puzzled about it in the moral world. There its course is often so very obscure; and often it seems to involve, so far as we can see, no penalty whatsoever.
William Dean Howells
#84. We have progressed so far that we have succeeded in tearing the atom apart; but to reach that point we may also have had to regress in our moral vision of the physical world to a level barely above the insentient.
David Bentley Hart
#85. The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
Deepak Chopra
#86. We, as spiritual beings, created the physical world as a place to learn. It's our school, our playground, our artist's studio. I beleive that we're here to master the process of creation - to learn how to consciously channel the creative energy of spirit into physical form.
Shakti Gawain
#87. When perception of the physical world is limited to the five-sensory modality, the basis of life in the physical arena becomes fear. Power to control the environment, and those within the environment appears to be essential.
Gary Zukav
#88. Computers are great tools, but they need to be applied to the physical world.
Tony Fadell
#89. I believe that we haven't begun to understand the many forces that bind the physical world, any more than we understand our own minds and what they're capable of.
Tamora Pierce
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. quantum physics, in which the simple act of observation seemed to affect the physical world, and in which changes performed on one physical system could have an immediate effect on another quite unlinked system (the theory of nonlocality),
George Pendle
#93. What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.
Ken Goldberg
#94. The Net is pretty cool, but the physical world is the best medium ever.
Jeff Bezos
#95. The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals.
Thomas Huxley
#96. If we try to put together what we have learned in the twentieth century about the physical world, the clues point toward something profoundly different from our instinctive understanding of matter, space, and time.
Carlo Rovelli
#97. What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.
Keri Smith
#98. Human rights in cyberspace are really no different from rights in the physical world.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#99. God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and the sun and the earth.
Jeffrey R. Anderson
#100. I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.
Andrea Barrett
