Physical Quotes

3624 Physical quotes by 2351 unique authors

Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe. — John Polkinghorne
Intellectually, perspective [drawing] is a breakthrough, because here, for the first time, the physical space we live in is being depicted as ifit were an… — Rudy Rucker
As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, "I love my body". Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No… — Kate Winslet
In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling… — Wynn Bullock
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them… — Antonin Scalia
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water,… — Cyril Connolly
If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it… — William Lyon Phelps
Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not… — Mahatma Gandhi
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous… — Susan Sontag
When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. — Paul Gauguin
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods… — Max Beerbohm
Thinking is a physical process, the human brain is not exempt from evolution — Steven Pinker
The trouble with conspiracies, even those that are to everybody's advantage in the long run, is that they are open to abuse. If manipulators really… — Richard Dawkins
In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In… — Amory Lovins
If you're fifty, exercise your mind and body regularly, eat well, and have a general zest for life, you're likely younger - in very real,… — Ken Robinson
In the APS (American Physical Society) it is ok to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves,… — Ivar Giaever
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
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
I may finally call attention to the probability that the association of paternal and maternal chromosomes in pairs and their subsequent separation during the reducing… — Unknown Author
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces… — James A. Garfield
In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for… — Lord Kelvin
It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure… — William Cecil Dampier
We never really see time. We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here… — Carlo Rovelli
We must meet hate with love. We must meet physical force with soul force. — Martin Luther
I discovered early that the hardest thing to overcome is not a physical disability but the mental condition which it induces. The world, I found,… — Alexander P. de Seversky

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