A book is a physical object in a world of physical…

A book, being a physical object, engenders a certain respect that zipping electrons cannot. Because you cannot turn a book off, because you have…

— Mo Willems

“how weird it would be to have around you only as many books as you have time to read in the rest of your…

— Julian Barnes

“A brick is a rust-colored blur of movement, caught in a moment, and transformed from motion into a physical object. Studying this brick would…

— Jarod Kintz

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

— David Byrne

A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures,…

— Ernst Mach

The body is to be compared, not to a physical object, but rather to a work of art.

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.

— Owen Gingerich

“A physical object could only be in one place at one time. Einstein proved that. Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.”

— Haruki Murakami

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

Smart property might be created by embedding smart contracts in physical objects.

— Nick Szabo

Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense. Economic benefits…

— Thomas Sowell

Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable,…

— Anonymous

As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most any expression…

— Wynn Bullock

The fundamental peculiarity of the photographic medium; the physical objects themselves print their image by means of the optical and chemical action of light.

— Rudolf Arnheim

My background is in art. I was a painter and an occasional sculptor, and I really like materials - you know, stuff. Physical objects.…

— Caterina Fake