The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath. Ernest Rutherford
The great object is to find the theory of the matter [of X-rays] before anyone else, for nearly every professor in Europe is now on the warpath.
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science. Ernest Lawrence
Certainly, it may bring to light such a deeper knowledge of the structure of matter as to constitute a veritable discontinuity in the progress of science.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. Iris Murdoch
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. Harriet Beecher
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg. Hans Christian Andersen
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings. Claude Lévi-Strauss
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter. C. V. Raman
The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.” Hippocrates
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.”
With the tools and the knowledge, I could turn a developing snail's egg into an elephant. It is not so much a matter of chemicals because snails and elephants do not differ that much; it is a matter of timing the action of genes. Barbara McClintock
With the tools and the knowledge, I could turn a developing snail's egg into an elephant. It is not so much a matter of chemicals because snails and elephants do not differ that much; it is a matter of timing the action of genes.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say. Barbara McClintock
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off... no matter what they say.
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter. Arthur Eddington
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.