Conservation of Matter Quotes

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen.

Nothing suffers annihilation, but at dissolution there is a change, and things fall back to the essential element in which they were before.

I know that nothing is destructible; things merely change forms.

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing.

If matter cannot be destroyed, cannot be annihilated, it could not have been created. The indestructible must be uncreatable.

We may lay it down as an incontestible axiom, that, in all the operations of art and nature, nothing is created; an equal quantity of matter exists both before and after the experiment; the quality and quantity of the elements remain precisely the same; and nothing takes place beyond changes and modifications in the combination of these elements. Upon this principle the whole art of performing chemical experiments depends: We must always suppose an exact equality between the elements of the body examined and those of the products of its analysis.

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. As such, evolution does not come out of zero; then, where does it come from? From previous involution.

What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.