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.
The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.
Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic particles that compose us cannot be separated from the space and particles surrounding them, so living beings cannot be isolated from each other. . . By the act of observation and intention, we have the ability to extend a kind of super-radiance to the world.
All the particles of the World are in Love and looking for Lovers.
Love you more," I said playfully. "Not a chance," Xavier said, fully awake now. "I'm bigger, I can contain more love. " "I'm smaller, therefore my love particles are more compressed, which means I can fit more in.
Just like an ordinary guitar string, a fundamental string can vibrate in different modes. And it is these different modes of vibration of the string that are understood in string theory as being the different elementary particles.
There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.
All things are made of atoms-little particles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. In that one sentence. . . there is an enormous amount of information about the world. His suggestion that the most valuable information on scientific knowledge in a single sentence using the fewest words is to state the atomic hypothesis.
A nation is a thing that lives and acts like a man and men are the particles of which it is composed.
The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.
My novels tend to come about from a fusion of two big ideas, creating a critical mass that then fissions, throwing off hundreds of other particles, riffs, tropes and characters.
I have done a terrible thing, I have postulated a particle that cannot be detected.
What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?
I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ass as he completely turned his back on me.
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in disputes about Hebrew points, Greek particles, or the accent and quantity of the Roman language, the youth of America will be employed in acquiring those branches of knowledge which increase the conveniences of life, lessen human misery, improve our country, promote population, exalt the human understanding, and establish domestic social and political happiness.
We are always getting ready to live, but never living. . . The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not. . . It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed. . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.
The love of talk distracts all the powers of our soul from God, and fills them with earthly objects and impressions, like a vessel of water that cannot be settled while you are continualy stirring the earthly particles from the bottom.
When you trace a particle back to its origins, you find that it's nothing but pure energy. All of us come from this energy field.
Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one.
Entropy is not about speeds or positions of particles, the way temperature and pressure and volume are, but about our lack of information.
