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Quotes About Matter

The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.
~ Nigel S. Hey
The beauty of the world is Christ's tender smile for us coming through matter.
~ Simone Weil
The generic notion of culture is coined, therefore, in order to overcome the persistent philosophical opposition between the spiritual and the real, thought and matter, body and mind. The only necessary and irreplaceable component of the concept is the process of structuring, together with its objectified results--man-made structures.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
He understood that the sources of the gravitational field were not just ponderable matter but also field energy. He realized that gravitational field energy is to be included as a source and that the gravitational field equations were therefore bound to be nonlinear.
~ Abraham Pais
Chamfort, echoing the misanthropic attitude of generations of philosophers before and after him, put the matter simply: 'Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.
~ Alain de Botton
En la vida todo se basa en el poder de la mente sobre la materia.
~ Alan Cohen
Perhaps the entire over-engineered concept of endless rebirth only recapitulates the much smaller, simpler idea that nothing material is destroyed – we already know that the matter of our bodies is reincarnated endlessly in both organic and inorganic form. We have continuity with everything that our bodies will ever be or have already been, shit and stars alike. How
~ Alan Moore
The female form lends itself best to represent matter because both create life within themselves. The male form lends itself best to represent soul because both create life outside themselves.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Anything is possible if you can give shape to limitless spirit without the limitations of matter,' said Brahma.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,
~ Dion Fortune
People and stars are made of the same stuff.
~ Bill Nye
All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.
~ Christopher Alexander
Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
~ Muhammad Iqbal
We are made of stardust, our whole body consists of material that has been here before the beginning of time.
~ Giorgio A. Tsoukalos
We all have our own personal laboratories. Life is an experiment, and it's just a matter of getting the alchemical or chemical combination right.
~ Keith Richards
She is oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus.
~ Jennifer Niven
light was both a wave and a particle.
~ Jerome Pohlen
As I sat in the office of the cure, he began to speak and explain to me what it was. I was there, and I had no choice but to continue, it seemed there was nothing but that, nothing else – and yet, it was being explained to me, almost without my permission, as a matter of course, this thing I did not understand: the cure for suicide.
~ Jesse Ball
Socialization means the formation of human beings out of helpless, dependent animal matter.
~ Ernest Becker
Not the why but the what.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Why I felt that impulse to devil him I do not know. Of course I do know. I was blind, unforgivingly jealous of what had happened to him. The fact that I took it as a matter of course did not alter that any. I certainly did hate him. I do not think I ever really hated him until he had that little spell of superiority at lunch--that and when he went through all that barbering. So I put the telegram in my pocket. The telegram came to me, anyway.
~ Ernest Hemingway
In 1799 Princess Louisa of Prussia wrote to Jenner asking for 'vaccine' matter (the word comes from the Latin for 'cow'),
~ Andrew Marr
But it is this peculiar behaviour of the gravity spring which enables the universe to have zero total energy.
~ Andrew Thomas
The mind's properties, the character, feelings, thoughts. The soul. Which would confirm what most sorcerers and all priests would deny. That the soul is also matter.' 'Blasphemy!
~ Andrzej Sapkowski