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If, in the external universe, every event and phenomenon occurs in the precise and often predictable way it would occur if the hypothesis were true, that hypothesis is regarded as the truth, until something occurs which proves it to be in error.

— Frederick Soddy Matter, Energy, Consciousness and Spirit (1919)

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Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

The world that is dead vitally and spiritually is not dead physically.

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The path hewn by knowledge through ignorance points two ways in the direction of the absolute unattainable truth. Man has always tended to confound these two classes of the ultimately unknowable.

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There is no life—body, mind or soul...— no birth, growth or even existence, without a continuous supply and expenditure of energy.

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The self-contained organism is not comprehensible, but the combination of an inanimate mechanism and an external will is more intelligible.

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