"Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on."
"You cannot have a thing "matter" by itself which shall have no motion in it, nor yet a thing "motion" by itself which shall exist apart from matter; you must have both or neither. You can have matter moving much, or little, and in all conceivable ways; but you cannot have matter without any motion more than you can have motion without any matter that is moving."
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Source: Samuel Butler (2014). “The Notebooks of Samuel Butler”, p.103, The Floating Press
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