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Quotes About Matter

and with the words, unsuitable somehow for a serious matter, "Eins, zwei, drei!" he laid out five wads of nice new banknotes for the Chairman.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Man knows he cannot embrace the universe with all it's sums and stars. But he finds it unbearable to be condemned to lose the second infinity as well, the one so close, so nearly within reach. Tamina lost the infinity of her love, I lost my father, we all lose whatever we do, because if it is perfection we are after, we must go to the heart of the matter, and we can never quite reach it.
~ Milan Kundera
emphasize: idyll and for all, because all human beings have always aspired to an idyll, to that garden where nightingales sing, to that realm of harmony where the world does not rise up as a stranger against man and man against other men, but rather where the world and all men are shaped from one and the same matter.
~ Milan Kundera
It's the comedies and thrillers that are successful. People love horror, but in thrillers. Once you speak of pain and suffering it's a different matter.
~ Philippe Claudel
None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.
~ Pico Iyer
I am a movie fan across the board, though, so if a movie is well done then I love it and it does not really matter what the genre is.
~ Tania Raymonde
... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Beyond matter is spirit and in spirit there is nothing but love.
~ Frederick Lenz
In the Yoga of Love we see that matter and spirit are one. It's only the ego that separates.
~ Frederick Lenz
Come to the orchard in Spring.There is light and wine, and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers.If you do not come, these do not matter.If you do come, these do not matter.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Agad bowed to the Fairy Queen. 'You are most wise, your majesty. Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.
~ Brandon Mull
Since the familiar particles and the objects they compose—stars, planets, people, etc.—amount to less than 5 percent of the mass of the universe, such a disruption would not affect the vast majority of the universe, at least as measured by mass.
~ Brian Greene
Just as important, the energy released by the inflaton field isn't lost-instead, like a cooling vat of steam condensing into water droplets, the inflaton's energy condenses into a uniform bath of particles that fill space. This two-step process-brief but rapid expansion, followed by energy conversion to particles-results in a huge, uniform spatial expanse that's filled with the raw material of familiar structures like stars and galaxies.
~ Brian Greene
At the ultramicroscopic level, the universe would be akin to a string symphony vibrating matter into existence.
~ Brian Greene
As the amount of matter used to create a black hole increases, the required density to which that matter must be crushed decreases.
~ Brian Greene
life is one more means the universe employs to release the entropy potential locked within matter.
~ Brian Greene
General relativity provides the choreography for an entwined cosmic dance of space, time, matter, and energy.
~ Brian Greene
What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
physicists abandoned their belief in a Newtonian, material universe because they had come to realize that the universe is not made of matter suspended in empty space but energy.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
At the atomic level, matter does not even exist with certainty; it only exists as a tendency to exist.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
The Universe is one indivisible, dynamic whole in which energy and matter are so deeply entangled it is impossible to consider them as independent elements.
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Matter can simultaneously be defined as a solid (particle) and as an immaterial force field (wave).
~ Bruce H. Lipton
Twentieth-century physics, going full circle back to Heracleitus, postulates that all matter is in motion. In other words, there is no thing, only energy.
~ Camille Paglia
Incarnation, the limitation of mind by matter, is an outrage to the imagination.
~ Camille Paglia