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• When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc... I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Expression, Style, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• [on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Men, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “Thoreau”, p.24, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different

  Werner Heisenberg

  Character, Two, Different

  Werner Heisenberg (2013). “The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory”, p.14, Courier Corporation

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• How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?.. It can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

  Vanna Bonta

  Soul, Matter, Spirit

  "Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview". Interview with Laurel van der Linde, 2007.

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• [Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.

  Hal Abelson

  Computer, Physics, Biology

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• God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Earth, Creation

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions of our world. But what is critical to note here is that, however ambiguous our images, the universe itself remains whole and is manifestly not fracturing into schizophrenic shards. It is this tantalizing wholeness and the thing itself that drives physicists onward like an eternally beckoning light that seems so teasingly near. It is always out of reach.

  Margaret Wertheim

  Our World, Light, Wave

  "The Grandeur and Limits of Science". Interview with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. February 16, 2017.

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• Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Knowledge, Dust, Scientist

  Mahatma Gandhi (1974). “Collected Works”

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• I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.

  Lydia M. Child

  May, Truth Is, Appearance

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• Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.

  George Eliot

  Mind, Brain, Want

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• Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Information, Way, Pressure

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.98, Harvard University Press

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• Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life.

  Rachel Carson

  Spring, Sea, Water

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sea Around Us”, p.29, Open Road Media

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• From the results so far obtained it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the long-range atoms arising from collision of alpha particles with nitrogen are not nitrogen atoms but probably atoms of hydrogen, or atoms of mass 2. If this be the case, we must conclude that the nitrogen atom is disintegrated under the intense forces developed in a close collision with a swift alpha particle, and that the hydrogen atom which is liberated formed a constituent part of the nitrogen nucleus.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Hydrogen Atom, Long, Atoms

  "Collisions of *3 Particles with Light Atoms. IV. An Anomalous Effect in Nitrogen," Philosophical Magazine, June 1919

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• The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.

  Alain Aspect

  Roots, Information, Lasers

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• The human race will disappear. Other races will appear and disappear in turn. The sky will become icy and void, pierced by the feeble light of half-dead stars. Which will also disappear. Everything will disappear. And what human beings do is just as free of sense as the free motion of elementary particles. Good, evil, morality, feelings? Pure 'Victorian fictions'. Only egotism exists.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Stars, Light, Race

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• The fortunate one uses the instrument of deep meditation and probes deep into his heart. Then the waves of love gain the depth of the ocean, and the ocean of love flows and fills the heart and thrills every particle of being. Every wave of life then flows in the fullness of love, in the fullness of divine glory, in the fullness of grace, in bliss and peace.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Ocean, Heart, Wave Of Life

  "Love and God". Book by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1969.

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• The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.

  John P. Wheeler III

  Independent, Science, Space

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• The Constitution is the origin and measure of legislative authority. It says to legislators, thus far ye shall go and no farther. Not a particle of it should be shaken; not a pebble of it should be removed.

  William Paterson

  Law, Political, Measurement

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• An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Different, Atoms, Hierarchy

  Source: accessnewage.com

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• The body is made up of atoms and subatomic particles that are moving at lightning speed around huge empty spaces and the body gives off fluctuations of energy and information in a huge void, so essentially your body is proportionately as void as intergalactic space, made out of nothing, but the nothing is actually the source of information and energy.

  Deepak Chopra

  Moving, Space, Giving

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com.

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• I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.

  George Carlin

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• If you take a particle down, past neutrinos, you get vortexes, little whirlpools of energy. This is amazing, because what it really means, is everything is the same. Everything is one of those, in various combinations.

  Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

  Mean, Past, Energy

  Interview with Mark Stavish, www.servantsofthelight.org. June 10, 1996.

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• It is scandalous the way some scientists accept uncritically some of the most ridiculous speculations, such as the plurality of worlds, the opinion that spacetime has more than 4 dimensions, that particles can move faster than light, or that human life can be prolonged indefinitely.

  Mario Bunge

  Moving, Light, World

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• The aim of particle physics is to understand what everything’s made of, and how everything sticks together. By everything I mean me and you, the Earth, the Sun, the 100 billion suns in our galaxy and the 100 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Absolutely everything.

  Brian Cox

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mean

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• God is not worn out running the galaxy. He’s not taxed at all guiding every dust particle all the time.

  John Piper

  Running, Dust, Worn

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