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Quotes About Matter

The air we breathe has about 1019 atoms in each cubic centimeter—and we usually think of air as empty space.
~ Andrew Fraknoi
But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.
~ Rick Snyder
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.
~ Robert Jarvik
Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.
~ Steve Jurvetson
My preference is to just be on the court. I just want to play no matter where that is at.
~ Paul Millsap
I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything.
~ Cory Lidle
After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.
~ Henry L. Stimson
The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.
~ Michel Houellebecq
But, you know, it really depends on the character. Age doesn't really matter.
~ Alison Lohman
We know that families and kids are going to be an important part of our audience, so we've always made sure that we've picked subject matter that was appropriate for kids. But I think if you try to target a movie to kids, you're going to fail.
~ Lee Unkrich
We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.
~ Donald Norman
It's a matter of the heart... I take teaching at Harvard very seriously and supervision of my students very seriously. Harvard should have a bona fide commitment to me.
~ Margaret Geller
But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.
~ Rick Snyder
Our personal natal horoscope provides us with a powerful tool for understanding our own energy signature and how it [one person, or, a group] is affected by other energy forms including matter.
~ Robert Allen Bartlett
Memes don't move: Signal-instigators do. This means the idea of a meme may be a meme, but the spoken word 'meme' is not itself a meme; it is a signal. A meme can only be a state of matter coded in 'brain language.
~ Robert Aunger
Consciousness, like matter, like energy, is preserved.
~ Robert Charles Wilson
Is that constitutional?" "I don't know, and frankly at this stage, what does it matter? Either this will work and everyone will be too relieved afterwards to quibble, or it won't and they will be too busy trying on gas masks to care.
~ Robert Harris
Of course, the laws of science contain no matter and have no energy either and therefore do not exist except in people's minds. It's best to be completely scientific about the whole thing and refuse to believe in either ghosts or the laws of science. That way you're safe. That doesn't leave you very much to believe in, but that's scientific too.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. Numbers exist only in the mind.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
the contradiction the scientists are stuck with, is that of mind. Mind has no matter or energy but they can't escape its predominance over everything they do. Logic exists in the mind. Numbers exist only in the mind. I don't get upset when scientists say that ghosts exist in the mind. It's that only that gets me. Science is only in your mind too, it's just that that doesn't make it bad. Or ghosts either.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out and, with nothing more to bind them together, the hours of his life fell apart.
~ Robert Musil
Dirt is just matter out of place.
~ Robert Service
The only laws of matter are those that our minds must fabricate and the only laws of mind are fabricated for it by matter.
~ Laura Dave