Quotes About Matter

None of us, I think, in the mid-'70s … would have thought we'd be devoting so much mental space now to confront religion. We thought that matter had long been closed. — Ian McEwan

Matter is lazy. It resists change. It wants to keep on doing whatever it's doing, whether that's sitting still or moving. We call that laziness inertia, but that doesn't mean we understand it. For a thousand years we've labelled it, quantified it, caged it in equations, but we've still only scratched the surface of what it really is.

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.

The field is the sole governing agency of the particle

with every action theres an equal opposite reaction. With every problem, there's a solution: just a matter of taking action.

Everything is energy.

of the actual objects of physical reality. Physical objects are not in space, but these objects are spatially extended.

There is always a certain charm in tracing the evolution of theories in the original papers; often such study offers deeper insights into the subject matter than the systematic presentation of the final result polished by the words of many contemporaries.

Thought is crude, matter unimaginably subtle.

is only by means of the sciences of life that the quality of life can be radically changed. The sciences of matter can be applied in such a way that they will destroy life or make the living of it impossibly complex and uncomfortable; but, unless used as instruments by the biologists and psychologists, they can do nothing to modify the natural forms and expression of life itself.

Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so henious as unorthodoxy of behaviour.

The complexity of language, he thought to himself, lies not in its subject matter but in our knotted understanding.

We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter.

So we are making a pathway across the levee that separates nature from culture, science from history, matter from mind.

The higher spiritual planes vibrate the fastest, and the lower material planes vibrate the slowest (which is why matter appears dense and solid).

Otto Richter scribbled equations into a notebook at a furious pace, as if he were possessed by a berserker demon. He was in hot pursuit of a sudden inspiration—that superfluidity could be used to model exotic matter, which in turn could lead

The origin of the universe is the exact opposite of random. Our lives are the exact opposite of pointless. It is not matter that creates an illusion of consciousness, but consciousness that creates an illusion of matter. —Bernard Haisch, The God Theory

If we lost all the dead space inside our atoms, we would each be able to fit into a particle of dust, and the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.

The word dark is a misnomer, since it implies that lack of light is the problem, that if you could just shine a flashlight on dark matter you could see it. But this stuff can't be detected by our current science. Period.

Right next door to the question of secession—a right that the Founders should have made more explicit than they did—is the equally challenging matter of expulsion. There needs to be a mechanism for frog-marching somebody to the curb. But enough about California.

En realidad la dicotomía mente-materia es sólo una apariencia. El mundo es parte de la conciencia y quien así lo vive se da cuenta de que una de las características de la realidad es su carácter mágico en donde los acontecimientos reflejan el estado interno.

The purpose of life is to matter and be ever mindful of the opportunities that we can both individually and collectively provide for others.

Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.

Life is but the expression of spirit through matter. To make life manifest requires the union of spirit and body.