Physical Quotes

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Materialism is incomplete even as a theory of the physical world, since the physical world includes conscious organisms among its most striking occupants. — Thomas Nagel
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism… — Thomas Nagel
Well, gauge theory is very fundamental to our understanding of physical forces these days. But they are also dependent on a mathematical idea, which has… — Roger Penrose
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his… — Thorstein Veblen
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker
Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead… — Rudolf Rocker
Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset of their laws to give… — Rudolf Rocker
Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS. — Unknown Author
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been… — Arthur Cayley
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few… — Adi Da
Only through the medium of the public physical world can the mind of one person make a difference to the mind of another. The mind… — Gilbert Ryle
I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of… — Carly Simon
God has communicated to man, the infinite to the finite. The One who made man capable of language in the first place has communicated to… — Francis Schaeffer
It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems — Shannon Miller
The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help… — Shannon Miller
But I do say that, if you will regularly devote 15 minutes a day, preferably before breakfast, for 60 days to the simple set of… — Gene Tunney
Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so… — Kate Millett
Everybody believes in psychiatry it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there… — Kate Millett
To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape. — Jennifer Capriati
If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one. — Max Tegmark
In the world of the very small, where particle and wave aspects of reality are equally significant, things do not behave in any way that… — John Gribbin
Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro… — Alexander H. Stephens
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral… — Antoine Lavoisier
I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only… — William P. Young
Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does. — David Chalmers

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