Matter Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Matter.
Top Quotes
“Materialism”
“Standard Model”
“Quantum physics”
“René Descartes”
“Albert Einstein”
“Particle physics”
“What is mind? no matter; what is matter? never mind.”
“Matter and energy seem granular in structure, and so does "life", but not so mind.”
“Wikipedia: Matter”
“He said that the beginning of the universe was mind and matter, mind being the creator and matter that which came into being.”
“Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.”
“Natural science served as - if we overlook the hasty identification of mind and matter which had its origin in natural science - as a shining and fruitful example to psychology.”
“It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. —”
“To the naked eye it was a dense, solid object, but its lattice of tiny nuclei immersed in an insubstantial fog of electrons was one part matter to two hundred trillion parts empty space.”
“Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.”
“Matter and Energy: A False Dichotomy, Matt Strassler (April 12, 2012)”
“Descartes... fell back on his original confusion of matter with space—space being, according to him, the only form of substance, and all existing things but affections of space. This error... forms one of the ultimate foundations of the system of Spinoza.”
“Epicurus held an opinion almost the opposite of all others. He supposed that the beginnings of the universals were atoms and a void; that the void was as it were the place of the things that will be; but that the atoms were matter, from which all things are.”
“Will matter then be destroyed or not?
The Savior said, All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots.
For the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone.”
“The upward progress of terrestrial life towards individuality has found apparently insurmountable obstacles, gross material difficulties before it, but once more through consciousness it finds wings, and, laughing at matter, flies over lightly where it could not climb.”