Quotes About Matter

Cold winter weather is snow laughing matter.

To have nothing the matter with you and no habits is pretty tame, pretty colorless. It is just the way a saint feels, I reckon; it is at least the way he looks. I never could stand a saint.

Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable or mineral life. Every idea is matter, so of course it contains life in the name of something that can be changed. Motion, or change, is life. Ideas have life. A belief has life, or matter; for it can be changed. Now, all the aforesaid make up man; and all this can be changed.

All we hear is "What's the matter with the country?" "What's the matter with the world?" There ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us in the world, and that's selfishness.

On Religion and Science: You cannot answer Berkeley, even if you have annihilated Kant, and yet, perforce, you assume that Berkeley is wrong when you affirm that science proves the non-existence of God, or, as much to the point, the existence of matter–You know I granted the reality of matter only in order to make myself intelligible to your understanding. Be positive scientists, if you please; but ontology has no place in positive science, so leave it alone....

When I think of the play of force and matter, and all the tremendous struggle of it, I feel as if I could write an epic on the grass.

I can't be a pessimist because I am alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So, I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive, whatever we must survive.

The bit is a fundamental particle of a different sort: not just tiny but abstract—a binary digit, a flip-flop, a yes-or-no. It is insubstantial, yet as scientists have finally come to understand information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself. They suggest that the bit is the irreducible kernel and that information forms the very core of existence.

It may be that all the laws of energy, and all the properties of matter, and all the chemistry of all the colloids are as powerless to explain the body as they are impotent to comprehend the soul. For my part, I think not." D'Arcy Thompson

information, they wonder whether it may be primary: more fundamental than matter itself.

In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter.

And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!

In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.

The reality of the matter is I'm blessed to be able to do what I can and to have this platform. For me, I'm going to try and do everything that I can to use that platform to help those who don't have the ability to spread their voice that people will hear them.

If I take a stand for something, then it's an issue. 'Oh, he's about to get fined for that.' Why does the fine matter? Why does it matter in the course of what I'm trying to do? It isn't about the fine.

Simply put, broadband voice is an interstate matter that must be dealt with through clear national standards.

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future.

Every law of matter or the body, supposed to govern man,is rendered null and void by the law of Life, God.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

Ojalá encuentres el agujero negro que te tiene reservado el Universo. Y que seas bien infeliz en él, retorciéndote en la materia condensada, aplastado como una cucaracha por el Big Crush.

Lilith: 'Your daughter is special. Her gifts need to be developed and nourished.' Mary: 'I take care of my own.' Lilith: 'You're feeding her body - I'll feed her spirit.' Mary: 'The Lord feeds her spirit, through the Good Book.' Lilith: 'That book wasn't written for her, Mary, nor you. It was written for people of another time... and they're long gone. It has nothing to do with you. If you had any idea how little you people matter to God...