"Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars ... I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?" - Richard Feynman

By the way, I know a place where matter is solid and liquid at the same time. Neptune is thought to have superionic water - a crystalline lattice of solid oxygen through which hydrogen ions flow freely like liquid.

http://www.teoti.co.uk/scifi-science-space/100336-superionic-water.html