Exist Quote by Alfred Russel Wallace

Science is incompetent to reason upon the creation of matter itself out of nothing. We have reached the utmost limit of our thinking faculties…

— James Clerk Maxwell

Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible…

— Albert Einstein

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

— George Santayana

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most…

— David Hume

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force...

— Max Planck

We are so far from knowing all the forces of nature and their various modes of action that it would be unworthy of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.

— Franz Kafka

“If anything is to exist at all, then the Original Thing must be, not a principle nor a generality, much less an ‘ideal’ or…

— C.S. Lewis

There is no such thing as inanimate matter...there is God or divinity in all matter and it is all living energy.

— Jay DeFeo

“Everything is inconceivable. The whole world is inconceivable to the strict logic of ideas. And yet the world exists to our senses, and we…

— Joseph Conrad

The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

— Havelock Ellis

Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole.

— Aristotle