After Quote by Antoine Lavoisier

We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity…

— Antoine Lavoisier

Art is precisely that condition which pertains when, after all analysis and reduction to parts has taken place, there remains a 'quality' which is…

— Douglas Portway

“Science might maintain the quantitative constancy of matter, but the so-called matter is mere abstraction. To say matter is changeless is as much as…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Since we are assured that the all-wise Creator has observed the most exact proportions of number, weight and measure in the make of all…

— Stephen Hales

“The underlying truth of all existence and all secondary qualities of matter is the ever-present Universal Mind, Universal Primary Quality, which feeds all existence…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“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

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

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

— Aristotle

“By reversing the steps that we took to advance from the concept of substance to that of Materia Prima, we can imagine building up…

— Henning Genz

Meantime, when once we know from nothing still Nothing can be create, we shall divine More clearly what we seek: those elements From which…

— Lucretius

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis,…

— Jacob Bronowski

There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit…

— Fairfield Porter