matter Quotes

“Dust is only a name for what happens when matter begins to understand itself.”

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol”

“The dissociation between mind and matter in men and machines is very striking; it suggests that almost any stable and reliable organization of material objects can execute an algorithm and so come to command some form of intelligence.”

My dear, Is it true that your mind is sometimes like a battering Ram Running all through the city, Shouting so madly inside and out About the ten thousand things That do not matter?”

“Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered.”

“As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really.”

″ ‘What a mercy that was not a pike!’ said Mr. Jeremy Fisher. ‘I have lost my rod and basket; but it does not much matter, for I am sure I should never have dared to go fishing again!’ ”

“It’s the size of the guns, not the size of the ship, that counts, my boy.”