Quotes About Matter

Meaning, however, is no great matter.

Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.

When politicians say your voice does not matter because the NRA owns them, we say, 'No more.'

As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.

Somebody said that dirt is matter in the wrong place. The same definition applies to nine-tenths of those called lazy. They are people gone astray in a direction that does not answer to their temperament nor to their capacities.

I'm insignificant?" Geoff said, standing up from his rock. "I don't matter?" ... You see, because most people have an influence on the course of history, we can't ask them to do this job becasue we'd be interfering with the past. You, however, are so insignificant, that even if I were to kill you on the spot, history would remain completely unchanged.

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.

In answer to Zeno, Democritus held that whilst atoms could be geometrically divided, it is only matter containing spaces – literally, parts of the void between the atoms – that can be physically divided. An atom itself could not be physically divided since it is perfectly solid, completely excluding the void, and thereby indivisible.

She couldn't see the obvious lines of definition, that the female identity could not allow itself to be invaded, perverted, and compromised by brutish men - alien spirits really - whose sole purpose was to inject foreign matter in women and upon withdrawal take away bits of their souls. Men put in and took out, like giant mosquitoes.

At the quantum level, everything is interconnected energy, even matter.

When immortality becomes for us no longer a matter of academic discussion, but the most vital of all questions; we shall find our comfort where so many before us have found it, in the ancient words.

With any success, a lot of voices come out, and you start hearing a lot more opinions on the matter. We've provoked very strong reactions in both directions since day one.

It was a privilege to play a leading role in helping to safeguard our parliamentary sovereignty, and as such I am, on any view, a person with a genuine and substantial interest in the matter of defending MPs' voices.

It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.

Carbon dioxide is unusual because it doesn't go through the usual three phases of matter, from solid to liquid to gas, but it goes straight from solid to gas. The volume of the gas is much greater than the volume of the solid. When a solid turns into a gas, we say it sublimes. The process is sublimation.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

It doesn't matter who we play against, whether it is Barcelona or another big team: when you are Man United, you do not have an excuse. You have to win.

Streetfighting is just get out there and bang. It's whatever in a street fight. This is different. You have to be real smart in your decisions at this professional level of the game. In a street fight, it doesn't even matter.

facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter,' as my friend the late Maya Deren once phrased the mystery.

And who can say whether my thoughts, independent of weight and time and the obstacles of matter, are not at the same moment being caught by mysterious, delicate, but unconscious receivers in the brain of an inhabitant of Mars as well as in the brain of the dog who barks outside?

Mind over matter, will make the Pooh unfatter.

In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.

In other words, as long as the matter in question is assessed on the basis of the same fundamental assumptions with which one started out, the errors in the account will remain standing until some disaster occurs to reveal the defect.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.