Quotes About Matter

Science is part of culture. Culture isn't only art and music and literature, it's also understanding what the world is made of and how it functions. People should know something about stars, matter and chemistry. People often say that they don't like chemistry but we deal with chemistry all the time. People don't know what heat is, they hardly know what water is. I'm always surprised how little people know about anything. I'm puzzled by it.

I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.

Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence—love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles 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.

IF THE DISTANCE BETWEEN God and man is even greater than we imagine," said Ryka, "how do we bridge the gap?" "We must learn how to serve," said Nouri. "But what can a man possibly do that would matter to God?" "It's not what he does that matters. It's how he does it." Nouri paused. "Service wears out our sharp edges. And opens the heart.

According to the latest national FDA retail-meat survey, about 90 percent of retail chicken showed evidence of contamination with fecal matter.

Irreducibly metaphysical judgments as to the nature of being, form, time, space, matter, cause, truth, knowledge, explanation, wholes, parts, and the like are the starting point of science, not its conclusions.

After this night is over, then you can drift away, they you can sleep for ever, for nothing will ever matter again.

Truth is a matter of semantics, whether we like it or not.

Living matter seems to be playing an entirely different game than non-living matter, even though they are both made from the same stuff. Why is living matter different from non-living matter? Is it simply cheating, somehow violating the physical laws that we've come to understand govern non-living matter? Pattee argues that living matter is distinguished from non-living matter by its ability to replicate and to evolve over the course of time. So what does it take to replicate and evolve?

It looks deserted. Does anyone live here anymore?" "Yes.As a matter of fact, I actually have some friends who live on the other side of the island." "I didn't think you had any friends," Dee grumbled. "Unlike you, Doctor, I am a good friend.

More and more the picture of reality Bohm was developing was not one in which subatomic particles were separate from one another and moving through the void of space, but one in which all things were part of an unbroken web and embedded in a space that was as real and rich with process as the matter that moved through it.

this was not a problem to address, this was a person to focus on:

To say that everything is idea or that everything is spirit, is the same as saying that everything is matter or that everything is energy, for if everything is idea or spirit, just as my consciousness is, it is not plain why the diamond should not endure for ever, if my consciousness, because it is idea or spirit, endures forever.

You've changed my mind,' she said shyly. I noted her curious choice of words but refused to let her say any more. Additional conversation would only confuse the matter. If I could change her mind without knowing it, I could just as easily change it back again by accident.

Words never mattered' he said, 'seasons mattered. Notice how people behave when they're desperate - that's who they are,' he warned.

Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and heat just to remember they mattered.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

The more powerful the power of thought, aphorism or idea, the more powerful the force of attraction it is capable of creating black holes of truth into which all matter goes

Even though all physical things vibrate, so they are full of energies, that doesn't make them any less physical to your senses.

Matter comes before the mind. Simply, because there is no mind without having the brain in the first place. However, I used the mind over matter; to come to this final conclusion.

Meditation is the exploration of the masculine part of each of us, the "I", divine will or ego, while ignoring the feminine part; which is the bodily or the matter.

The matter of heart is more personal than accepting the opinions of others.

We only need a mediator when we lack knowledge of the matter in question.