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Quotes About Physical

But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.
~ George Gabriel Stokes
From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character.
~ David Bohm
Philosophers and theologians have yet to learn that a physical fact is as sacred as a moral principle. Our own nature demands from us this double allegiance.
~ Louis Agassiz
Science gives you an understanding of the physical world, and it increases the capacity for fascination.
~ Reggie Watts
Frege has the merit of ... finding a third assertion by recognising the world of logic which is neither mental nor physical.
~ Bertrand Russell
When someone admits one and rejects another which is equally in accordance with the appearances, it is clear that he has quitted all physical explanation and descended into myth.
~ Epicurus
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.
~ Derek Walcott
She thinks hockey and football are very dangerous.
~ Abby Klein
They haven't just had sex; they have translated their feelings – appreciation, tenderness, gratitude and surrender – into a physical act.
~ Alain de Botton
Life is crueller than art, for the latter usually assures that physical surroundings reflect characters' mental states.
~ Alain de Botton
Worldly things have their value and spiritual gifts have their value. There is no crossover between the two.
~ Alan Cohen
Formal profile or not, of one thing he was now certain: They had badly underestimated what had seemed to be a Resistance pilot on the verge of physical and emotional collapse.
~ Alan Dean Foster
The Sun and planets represent the spiritual consciousness in the heaven world ; the signs of the zodiac represent the astral or psychic consciousness ; and the houses of the horoscope as a whole, represent the physical consciousness.
~ Alan Leo
Without ever hearing it spoken out loud, we budding scientists simply embraced a principle I call the Central Doctrine of Science: All properties and events in the physical universe are governed by laws, and those laws hold true at every time and place in the universe. Graduate
~ Alan Lightman
Back trouble was the curse of the builder and
~ Derek Smith
Here's another definition I like, for different reasons: "An act of violence would be any act that inflicts physical or psychological harm on another."388 I like this one because its inclusiveness reminds us of the ubiquity of violence, and thus I think demystifies violence a bit. So, you say you oppose violence? Well, in that case you oppose life. You oppose all change. The important question becomes: What types of violence do you oppose?
~ Derrick Jensen
We can talk all we want about conservation biology and about the use of science to measure biodiversity,45 but in the real, physical world the real, physical effects of science on real, living nonhumans has been nothing short of atrocious.
~ Derrick Jensen
the law clearly stated that a man with a physical defect could not be king.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Violence Without violence, there is no nourishment. Unless the mineral is consumed, the plant cannot grow. Unless the plant is consumed, the animal cannot grow. Physical growth demands the consumption of another. Only mental growth is possible without consuming another; but it is a choice humans rarely make.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Y de tanto protegernos la cabeza, el cuerpo quedó deteriorado
~ Diamela Eltit
Love is immortal, and it goes beyond satisfying some fleeting physical hunger. In other words, sweetheart," her mother explained, "sex won't make up for the lack of love, no matter how good it is
~ Diana Palmer
The body is the vehicle of the mind.
~ Dion Fortune
Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.
~ Djuna Barnes
The reason people sweat is so they won't catch fire when making love.
~ Don Rose