Material world may refer to:
- Nature, the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general
- Material World (TV series), a Canadian television sitcom in the 1990s
- Material World (radio programme), a BBC Radio 4 science programme
- Material World: A Global Family Portrait, a 1994 photo essay by Peter Menzel
Famous quotes containing the words material and/or world:
“This is the essential distinction—even opposition—between the painting and the film: the painting is composed subjectively, the film objectively. However highly we rate the function of the scenario writer—in actual practice it is rated very low—we must recognize that the film is not transposed directly and freely from the mind by means of a docile medium like paint, but must be cut piece-meal out of the lumbering material of the actual visible world.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)
“It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will ... is a shapeless world.”
—Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)