“Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and how the world came into being. It's very remote from your daily life and mine, and yet it defines us as human beings.” WorldHumansArtUseUniverseHuman BeingsMinesFundamentalsPhysicsPracticalsDaily Life Author:Yuri Milner
“The question that faces every man born into this world is not what should be his purpose, which he should set about to achieve, but just what to do with life? The answer, that he should order his life so that he can find the greatest happiness in it, is more a practical question, similar to that of how a man should spend his weekend, then a metaphysical proposition as to what is the mystic purpose of his life in the scheme of the universe.” MenWorldShouldFacesPurposeOrderUniverseBornAnswersAchieveThis WorldEvery ManPracticalsWeekendSchemesPropositionsMetaphysicalMystic Book:Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living Source: Lin Yutang - The Importance Of Living
“When one studies the structure of the universe, it becomes clear that the sciences are as aesthetic as the arts, and the arts are as practical as the sciences. Thus, they are different - but the same.” ArtDifferentUniverseStudyClearStructurePracticalsAesthetic Author:Edward J. Fraughton
“It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.” WayChristianUniverseDifferencesAcceptingEmotionalSaintPassionatePracticalsResignationStoicReligious Experience Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“Our idealists must own that their velleity to abolish all suffering is most fully expressed in the Fifth Wisdom of Lamaism, the doctrine that teaches that "no durable happiness, nor yet security, for any sentient being can exist while others are a prey to suffering." That truth cannot be questioned and you may take it to heart: in practical terms it means we got ourselves born on the wrong planet - in the wrong universe.” HeartMayMeanSufferingUniverseTermBornTeachSecurityPlanetsPracticalsDoctrineFifthPreyAbolishIdealistSentient Beings Author:Revilo P. Oliver
“We may exist in all universes, but 'hear' only one because of our limitations, the valve of our desires, our practical, physical needs. All is vibration, with nothing vibrating across no distance whatsoever. All is music. A universe, a world, is just one long difficult song. The difference between worlds is the difference between songs.” WorldNeedsMayLongDesireSongUniverseDifficultDifferencesDistancePracticalsLimitationJust OneVibrationsValve Author:Greg Bear
“Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't start with a "Big Bang" at all-it was more of "Phhbwt" sound. You may be wondering about the practical applications of the "Little Phhbwt" theory. Dogbert: I was wondering when you'll go away.” MayLittlesBigsScienceUniverseSoundWonderWeekTheoryPracticalsGoing AwayApplicationBangsCalculationsDilbert Author:Scott Adams