matter

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56f6ecc	Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?	life happens world-moves minutes minute matter moments think know remember	Jodi Picoult
b6a4031	You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy--enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.	matter physics	Bill Bryson
a1a5a99	Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.	science einstein matter energy physics	Bill Bryson
f08608a	Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.	mind matter	Philip K. Dick
ddab260	Agreement is the best weapon of defense--and the matter would be buried.	buried defense matter weapon	Franz Kafka
2e0be52	There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.	silence life matter land	Annie Dillard
1d5648b	What does the body matter if the soul is dead?	matter dead soul	Francine Rivers
7672857	So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. , , , , , &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure. (1860)	science august-krönig bernoulli clausius daniel-bernoulli herapath james-joule james-prescott-joule john-herapath joule kronig rudolf-clausius rudolf-gottlieb rudolf-julius-emanuel-clausius matter temperature motion property curiosity physics	James Clerk Maxwell
f1710e2	This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the production of intelligence, and they were apt to talk sneeringly about purely astronomical phenomena, 'Mere dead matter' was one of their favourite phrases.	universe intelligence biology exobiology matter dead	Arthur C. Clarke
f657482	Men, women, children - all have souls. Tables. Rocks. Wheels. Cups. All likewise have souls. Spirit lives in matter. All matter. Where else would it live?	matter soul	Mike Carey

56f6ecc

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

life happens world-moves minutes minute matter moments think know remember

Jodi Picoult

b6a4031

You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X 10^18 joules of potential energy--enough to explode with the force of thirty very large hydrogen bombs, assuming you knew how to liberate it and really wished to make a point.

matter physics

Bill Bryson

a1a5a99

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

science einstein matter energy physics

Bill Bryson

f08608a

Matter is plastic in the face of Mind.

mind matter

Philip K. Dick

ddab260

Agreement is the best weapon of defense--and the matter would be buried.

buried defense matter weapon

Franz Kafka

2e0be52

There was only silence. It was the silence of matter caught in the act and embarrassed. There were no cells moving, and yet there were cells. I could see the shape of the land, how it lay holding silence. Its poise and its stillness were unendurable, like the ring of the silence you hear in your skull when you're little and notice you're living the ring which resumes later in life when you're sick.

silence life matter land

Annie Dillard

1d5648b

What does the body matter if the soul is dead?

matter dead soul

Francine Rivers

7672857

So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. , , , , , &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure. (1860)

science august-krönig bernoulli clausius daniel-bernoulli herapath james-joule james-prescott-joule john-herapath joule kronig rudolf-clausius rudolf-gottlieb rudolf-julius-emanuel-clausius matter temperature motion property curiosity physics

James Clerk Maxwell

f1710e2

This had not endeared him to exobiologists such as Dr Perera, who took exactly the opposite view. To them, the only purpose of the Universe was the production of intelligence, and they were apt to talk sneeringly about purely astronomical phenomena, 'Mere dead matter' was one of their favourite phrases.

universe intelligence biology exobiology matter dead

Arthur C. Clarke

f657482

Men, women, children - all have souls. Tables. Rocks. Wheels. Cups. All likewise have souls. Spirit lives in matter. All matter. Where else would it live?

matter soul

Mike Carey