Matter does not learn of them, it possesses them.

A cell has not studied chemistry, but with unfailing accuracy it executes its wonderful chemical operations.

Water knows nothing of physics and mathematics, but it flows from the spring, just as high as the laws of hydraulic pressure command." "Bravo," interrupted Mayboom, "that explains at last something I never understood; and that is, why a flower pot should fall off a window straight on the heads of people in the street, with unfailing accuracy." "Please, Mayboom, no bad jokes to-day," said Dorfling gently.
The comic song writer sighed and again sank into deep thought, and the philosopher went on: "The science of truth, to which every atom adheres, dwells in men.

We must not forget that man is a collection of countless millions of atoms; the collected consciousness of mankind can know just as much of what each atom knows, as a whole people can understand of Greek or Sanscrit because one or other of its members can read those languages.
Only through intercommunication can the knowledge of the few become the knowledge of the many.

The development of the living being I regard in this way, that the atoms at first only hang loosely, gradually becoming more closely knit together, until they make a substantial organism.