Physical Events

Famous quotes containing the words physical events, physical and/or events:

    “Philosophical questions are not by their nature insoluble. They are, indeed, radically different from scientific questions, because they concern the implications and other interrelations of ideas, not the order of physical events; their answers are interpretations instead of factual reports, and their function is to increase not our knowledge of nature, but our understanding of what we know.”
    —Susanne K. Langer (1895–1985)

    “It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.”
    —Max Beerbohm (1872–1956)

    “There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)