Agents Quote by Isaac Newton

During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is…

— Martin Rees

The trouble is that the expression 'material thing' is functioning already, from the very beginning, simply as a foil for 'sense-datum'; it is not…

— J. L. Austin

“we were particles that came together to form into star after star after star until almost forever passed, and instead of a star what…

— Augusten Burroughs

“We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of years ago that have for a brief while…

— Frank Close

“If we follow the sense of the literature and its ideas of creation, we find that people in the ancient Near East did not…

— John H. Walton

The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and…

— Robert Barry

“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

“To date, we don't know of any object that cannot, for certain, be subdivided. The chemist's atom consists of nucleus and electrons; the nucleus…

— Henning Genz

The whole material world. It doesn't actually exist. Matter is not material. It's made up of atoms that are moving at lightning speeds around…

— Deepak Chopra

Let us think of Nature as a builder, making all that we see out of atoms of a limited number of kinds, just as…

— William Henry Bragg

As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“In modern science the methods of analysis are principally applied to investigating the nature of material entities. Thus, the ultimate nature of matter is…

— Padmasambhava