Casting Quote by Maimonides

A form comes out of a combination of force and matter.

— Swami Vivekananda

It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.

— Robert Grosseteste

Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of…

— Maimonides

It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something.…

— Thomas Aquinas

There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve.

— Swami Vivekananda

No form remains permanently in a substance; a constant change takes place, one form is taken off and another is put on.

— Maimonides

In all my research I have never come across matter. To me the term matter implies a bundle of energy which is given form…

— Max Planck

Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same.

— Swami Vivekananda

Mere form without substance must collapse of its own weight.

— Clarence Manion

Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it.

— Swami Vivekananda

The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was…

— Wilhelm Ostwald

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns…

— William Shakespeare