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• Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Microcosm

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.27, Harvard University Press

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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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• What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Physics, Geometry, Interaction

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• I observed certain animalcules, within whole bodies I saw so quick a motion as to exceed belief; they were about the size of a large grain of sand, and their bodies being transparent, that the internal motion could plainly be seen. Among other things, I saw in the body of one of these animalcules a bright and round corpuscle, placed near the head, and in which a very wonderful swift motion was to be seen, consisting of an alternate extension and contraction. This particle I concluded to be the heart.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Heart, Body, Saws

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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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• 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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• Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.

  Isaac Newton

  Strong, Philosophy, Together

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• We do not understand much of anything, from... the "big bang" , all the way down to the particles in the atoms of a bacterial cell. We have a wilderness of mystery to make our way through in the centuries ahead.

  Lewis Thomas

  Science, Cells, Bangs

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• Each individual is a cosmos of organs, each organ is a cosmos of cells, each cell is a cosmos of infinitely small ones; and in this complex world, the well-being of the whole depends entirely on the sum of well-being enjoyed by each of the least microscopic particles of organized matter. A whole revolution is thus produced in the philosophy of life.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Philosophy, Cells, Cosmos

  Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.119, Courier Corporation

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• To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.

  Milton A. Rothman

  Space, Clouds, Mind

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• There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of colour. It is not so obvious as the greenness of England, but it is infinitely more varied and more delicate in tone. The landscape is a pinky mauve, a lilac, and the reflection of the sun of the particles of the atmosphere is a warm amber. So I should say our colour scheme is amber and lilac.

  Hans Heysen

  Reflection, Atmosphere, Amber

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• In the far, far future, essentially all matter will have returned to energy. But because of the enormous expansion of space, this energy will be spread so thinly that it will hardly ever convert back to even the lightest particles of matter. Instead, a faint mist of light will fall for eternity through an ever colder and quieter cosmos.

  Brian Greene

  Fall, Light, Space

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• There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Numbers, People, Brain

  "The neurons that shaped civilization". TEDIndia Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• We did not purify... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses. They were very different... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.

  Luc Montagnier

  Typical, Different, Shapes

  "Did Luc Montagnier Discover HIV?". Interview with Djamel Tahi, July 1997.

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• Poetry implies the whole truth. Philosophy expresses a particle of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Philosophy, Poetry

  "The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861".

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• All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature.

  Isaac Newton

  Nature, Science, Intelligent

  Isaac Newton (2004). “Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings”, p.138, Cambridge University Press

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• By such deductions the law of gravitation is rendered probable, that every particle attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance. The law thus suggested is assumed to be universally true.

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Science, Squares

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• Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Mind, Moments

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• Every subatomic interaction consists of the annihilation of the original particles and the creation of new subatomic particles. The subatomic world is a continual dance of creation and annihilation, of mass changing into energy and energy changing into mass. Transient forms sparkle in and out of existence, creating a never-ending, forever newly created reality.

  Gary Zukav

  Reality, Creating, Forever

  Gary Zukav (1979). “The dancing Wu Li masters: an overview of the new physics”, Bantam

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• Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it.

  Gurbaksh Chahal

  Dream, Fighting, Long

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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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• All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Children, Opportunity, Soul

  Vladimir Nabokov (2010). “Lolita”, p.12, Vintage

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• And as particles are living digital elements, moving on their own according to the various attributes (such as weight, speed, shape) given to them by the animator, we don't know what the visual result will be until everything is completed. This result can often be unsatisfying, obliging us to repeat the process all over again, with new features.

  Martine Epoque

  Moving, Often Is, Elements

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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