Quotes About Matter

It's a matter of timing and of patience. Although it may seem nothing is happening on the surface, there may yet be profound changes occurring a little deeper. Waiting isn't bad.

The earth is too small a star and we too brief a visitor upon it for anything to matter more than the struggle for peace.

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from.

Any materialist philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a material world that is independent of our minds.

Consciousness resides in the gap between electrons, protons, and neutrons.

The mind is the chisel, matter is the stone and life is the sculpture. Make sure you use your chisel wisely

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

But the wind always swept my words away like cloud shadows, as if it mattered more that I said them, than who heard them.

If men could not trust in the divine agency of the gods, and if human perfection were no longer possible within the polis, the only conclusion seemed to be that man's fate was solely a personal matter.

We commonly think of animals and plants as matter, but they are really systems through which matter is continually passing.

This is what the sprouts teach: immortality is not a matter of holding on, but of letting go.

We must conquer our personal addictions and attachments, for these are the anchors that hold us to the density of form and matter.

Behold the stars and planets all making their grand patterns above while the waves beneath play others; then there are the patterns in and between the patterns. Are they all synchronistic. . . . Can such a thing as one pattern be distilled from all? . . . the patterns seem harmonic and chaotic, in mind as in matter.

In other words, atoms and elementary particles and matter itself all are probabilities and possibilities, to which we ourselves give form.

Does quantum physics really say, he asked, that the moon doesn't exist when no one is looking at it? He found the idea that matter was described by probabilities especially upsetting. "God does not play dice with the universe!" he declared. To which Bohr supposedly replied, "Albert, don't tell God what to do.

But there was one thing more about quantum physics that thoroughly annoyed most of the scientists who truly understood its implications. Because it dealt so intimately with the nature of matter—and reality—quantum physics also had quite a few things to say about things that, until recently, were strictly the preserve, not of physics, but of metaphysics . . . of religion, and—whisper it softly—of philosophy.11

Destiny is not a matter of chance but a matter of choice; It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved

Taming the matter is the basic thing for creating visual art.

Universe consists of frozen light.