Quotes About Matter

The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.

Life is pretty much a selling job. Whether we succeed or fail is largely a matter of how well we motivate the human beings with whom we deal to buy us and what we have to offer. Success

Size does matter and it doesn't happen to all guys.

Mind over matter: You're on my mind, and well...That's all that matters.

They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter.

[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes.

All matter is quantified thought - manifested by the thoughts you give precedence to. It is your dominant thoughts that determine your destiny.

Dignity is a matter which concerns only mankind.

Education is still, in spite of private education, a state matter.

We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.

I would be lying if I'd say success and failure doesn't matter because they do. For now, my biggest joy is that I am able to bring you so much work, which I think is also a success.

Apply your fiendish mind to the matter, said Howl. Or even think, if you know how.

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive. But I also sense the universe is magical, greater than the sum of its parts, which I don't attribute to a governing god, but simply to the surprising, ecstatic, frightening everyday reality we all know. Ultimately, I find consciousness a fascinating predicament for matter to get into.

La variedad es la promesa que la materia hace a los seres vivos.

What Mr. Friedman is suggesting is that if we don't drain the swamp where the rats are breeding, it won't really matter how many of these rats we kill; they will continue to leave the swamp and migrate to our cities in numbers that are legion.

She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet here, a dead star there, with random waste between.

How deep is time? How far down into the life of matter do we have to go before we understand what time is?

The philosophical problem in a story is about something even larger than the story itself. It's about the question why. Why does this story matter in the overall epic of humanity?

But how," said Charles, who was close to tears, "how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murder?" Henry lit a cigarette. "I prefer to think of it," he had said, "as redistribution of matter.

I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

When God speaks, when the Word speaks, energy is translated into matter. What is atomic fission? It is matter translated back into energy—poof! it disappears. Creation began with energy. In the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.

Survival became a matter of chasing and being chased, eating and being eaten.