Physical Quotes

3624 Physical quotes by 2351 unique authors

For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science… — Ellen Swallow Richards
The spirit of humanity, like the forces of nature, and like the physical life, is at bottom energy.... Spiritual life, therefore, is just as much… — Unknown Author
When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the… — Eugene Wigner
During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had not before. It… — Augustus De Morgan
The dogma of the Ghost in the Machine ... maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes;… — Gilbert Ryle
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It… — Arthur David Ritchie
Everywhere science is enriched by unscientific methods and unscientific results, ... the separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to… — Paul Feyerabend
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist… — Antoine Lavoisier
God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will exercise the muscles of faith… — John Howe
Color has such a friendly appearance, that I always see it with fresh delight, now with all its tints, like the spirits of the light,… — Unknown Author
The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is the… — Edward J. Fraughton
For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk. — Jean-Marie Messier
As long as man was small in numbers and limited in technology, he could realistically regard the earth as an infinite reservoir, an infinite source… — Kenneth E. Boulding
The idea is that instead of going to an online retail site ... and buying a physical CD and having it shipped to you, you… — Gene Hoffman
How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine, the highest earthly felicity, was but the beginning of… — Catharine Beecher
While it is never safe to affirm that the future of Physical Science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the… — Robert S. Mulliken
Obscenity is our name for the uneasiness which upsets the physical state associated with self-possession, with the possession of a recognized and stable individuality. — Georges Bataille
The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet the demands of… — John Gorrie
Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious. — David Brewster
A good physiological experiment like a good physical one requires that it should present anywhere, at any time, under identical conditions, the same certain and… — Johannes Peter Muller
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product… — Edwin Howard Armstrong
The fact is the physical chemists never use their eyes and are most lamentably lacking in chemical culture. It is essential to cast out from… — Henry Edward Armstrong
We should distinguish at this point between "government" and "state" ... A government is the consensual organization by which we adjudicate disputes, defend our rights,… — David Boaz
A cell of a higher organism contains a thousand different substances, arranged in a complex system. This great organized system was not discovered by chemical… — Unknown Author
Cell genetics led us to investigate cell mechanics. Cell mechanics now compels us to infer the structures underlying it. In seeking the mechanism of heredity… — C. D. Darlington

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