Abstraction Quote by Niels Bohr

Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent…

— Fritjof Capra

When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s…

— Andy Goldsworthy

“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

All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel…

— Isaac Newton

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but…

— Erwin Schrodinger

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The structure underlying the phenomena is not given by material objects like the atoms of Democritus but by the form that determines the material…

— Werner Heisenberg

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

— Karl Pearson

The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change…

— Arthur David Ritchie

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

— Martin Rees

“There is no such thing as an indestructible material object. Every particle that meets its antiparticle gives up its identity and becomes radiative energy.…

— Henning Genz

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

— Swami Vivekananda