#physic

The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#god #physical-laws #science #spirtuality #science

The very nature of the quantum theory ... forces us to regard the space-time coordination and the claim of causality, the union of which characterizes the classical theories, as complementary but exclusive features of the description, symbolizing the idealization of observation and description, respectively. ↗

— Niels Bohr

#quantum-mechanics #reality #science #nature

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality. ↗

— Ken Wilber

#science #science

Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#compared #dancing #easy #enough #films

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. ↗

— Aeschylus

#mind #physicians #words

There are endless new variations on how to hurt a woman physically, emotionally, financially, and socially. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#endless #financially #how #hurt #new

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#afraid #after #because #developing #got

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#almost #barter #begin #both #continue

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#dominated #domination #physical #physical violence #rests

I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#devoting #emotion #exhausted #experience #get