Elements Quotes

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In fact, it seems that present-day science, with one sweeping step back across millions of centuries, has succeeded in bearing witness to that primordial 'Fiat… — Pope Pius XII
Our military should be trained and structured around missions, not the elements of air, water, and land. — Lou Gerstner
I find it hard to pre-plan every element of everything I do. It's not my thing. — John Malkovich
The only important thing is to follow nature. A tiger should be a good tiger; a tree, a good tree. So people should be people.… — Carl Jung
As I see it, all of them - Tachists, Action Painters, Informel artists, and the rest - are only part of an Informel movement that… — Gerhard Richter
If a new result is to have any value, it must unite elements long since known, but till then scattered and seemingly foreign to each… — Wilfred Bion
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature. — Annie Jump Cannon
Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds… — Stanislao Cannizzaro
The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit all… — Henry Moseley
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal death with Agassiz. — Asa Gray
The only difference between elements and compounds consists in the supposed impossibility of proving the so-called elements to be compounds. — Wolfgang Ostwald
A young man passes from our public schools to the universities, ignorant almost of the elements of every branch of useful knowledge. — Charles Babbage
...as long as individuals are compelled to rent themselves on the market to those who are willing to hire them, as long as their role… — Noam Chomsky
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of… — Kristin Hannah
Time is the element that controls the consciousness, the very being of the people. — Jamaica Kincaid
There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based on the author's own. But in my… — William Trevor
Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called… — Ernst Mach
I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life. — Ornette Coleman
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776,… — Robert Burchfield
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three elements,- carbon, hydrogen,… — Asa Gray

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