Material World Quotes

83 quotes by 72 authors

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the… — Baron de Montesquieu
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the… — John Eccles
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one… — Paul Davies
Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing the holy name… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been… — Jacob Bronowski
There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying. What I say..… — Bob Brown
Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve.… — Ayya Khema
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru… — Edward Abbey
But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to… — Sandra Cisneros
We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from… — R. D. Laing
[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in… — Lucy Suchman
Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds. — Manuel De Landa
In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance. — Imelda Marcos
I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a… — Tom Ford
Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are… — Rudolf Steiner
The material world has only been constructed at the price of taking the self, that is, mind, out of it, removing it; mind is not… — Erwin Schrodinger
Everybody is different and I think that we live in a material world. But for me, possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a… — Nicolas Berggruen
The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world,… — Hilary Putnam

Who Wrote These Material World Quotes

72 authors contributed a total of 83 Material World Quotes, led by these top contributors: