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

Francis Bacon
Change, Matter, Certain
'Cogitationes de Natura Rerum' Cogitatio 5 in J. Spedding (ed.) 'The Works of Francis Bacon' vol. 3 (1857) p. 22 (Latin) and vol. 5 (1858) p. 426 (English translation)
That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.