Quotes About Essence

Having begun my life in science searching for the equation beyond time, I now believe that the deepest secret of the universe is that its essence rests in how it unfolds moment by moment in time.

Water is the best of all things.

What is there in a name? It is merely an empty basket, until you put something into it.

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?

It is God who is the ultimate reason things, and the Knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will are the beginning of things.

For the essence of science, I would suggest, is simply the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.

What is is what must be.

Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.

Science sometimes falls short when trying to fathom the depths of our essence - and our inspiration comes from that essence.

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided.

Life is chemistry, not biology.

Love is basic for the birth of a true society, while violence has in it the essence of anti-sociality. Love is positive, is eternal: violence is degeneracy, it is it's own destruction.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

Your environment wasn't supportive, wasn't loving, did not respond to you ... The fundamental thing that happened, and the greatest calamity, is not that there was no love or support. The greater calamity, which is caused by the first calamity is that you lost the connection to your essence. That is much more important than whether your mother or father loved you or not.

the essence of criticism is conversation - a passionate, rational argument about a shared experience

To us, recollection is a holy act; we sanctify the present by remembering the past. To us Jews, the essence of faith is memory. To believe is to remember.

Technical civilization is man's conquest of space. It is a triumph frequently achieved by sacrificing an essential ingredient of existence, namely, time. In technical civilization, we expend time to gain space. To enhance our power in the world of space is our main objective. Yet to have more does not mean to be more. The power we attain in the world of space terminates abruptly at the borderline of time. But time is the heart of existence.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.