Material World

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 world, material and/or world:

    “Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodes ... assumptions about the nature of our reality, the “pattern” in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.”
    —Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)

    “The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.”
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)