Physical Phenomenon Quotes

Music is just air moving around.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.

Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.

And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.

I look at light as a material. It is physical. It is photons. Yes, it exhibits wave behavior, but it is a thing.

Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck through an inner tube.

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.

If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

You have the possibility to give light a dimension in time.

Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves.

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

This result is due to a phenomenon of interference which occurs within the sensitive layer.

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

Do you want to be mesmermized by the physical phenomenon?

Gravity doesn't lie.

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

You may feel a tugging sensation near your ankles.

In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new physical phenomenon that we have yet to discover and have now discovered in that moment than it is a spiritual force coming down from God making something happen in front of you.