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“The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.”

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B. C. Forbes was an American journalist and publisher, born on May 14, 1880, and died on May 6, 1954. He is best known for founding Forbes magazine, which focuses on business, wealth, and investment. more

“Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.”

Made Said Stills Matter Earth Science Water Fire Air Wind Stones Infinite Clouds Definite Density Rarity Undefined

Author:Theophrastus

“For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size.”

Two Matter Body Science Fire Greater Movement Mass Gold Weight Size Proportion Void Portions Exhibits Ratios

Book:Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

Source: Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation

“For we are all sprung from earth and water”

Matter Earth Science Water Sprung

Author:Xenophanes

“It is not possible for form to do without matter because it is not separable, nor can matter itself be purged of form.”

Matter Form Science

Author:Robert Grosseteste

“It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.”

Firsts Matter Body Lasts Science Natural Broken Argument Weight Broken Down

Author:William Harvey

“It must be understood that prime matter, and form as well, is neither generated nor corrupted, because every generation is from something to something. Now that from which generation proceeds is matter, and that to which it proceeds is form. So that, if matter or form were generated, there would be a matter for matter and a form for form, endlessly. Whence, there is generation only of the composite, properly speaking.”

Ifs Wells Matter Would Be Form Science Generations Understood Prime Composites

Book:Aquinas on matter and form and the elements: a translation and interpretation of the De principiis naturae and the De mixtione elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas

Source: Aquinas on matter and form and the elements: a translation and interpretation of the De principiis naturae and the De mixtione elementorum of St. Thomas Aquinas

“The nature of matter, or body considered in general, consists not in its being something which is hard or heavy or coloured, or which affects the senses in any way, but simply in its being something which is extended in length, breadth and depth.”

Way Matter Hard Body Science Depth Heavy Senses Length Breadth

Author:Rene Descartes

“The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.”