Material Quotes

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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit. — John Selden
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes. — Thomas Carlyle
What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon… — Woodrow Wilson
I understood that all the material of a literary work was in my past life, I understood that I had acquired it in the midst… — Marcel Proust
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of… — Jules Henry
Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and… — Ludwig von Mises
Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of… — Henry Ford
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water.… — Carl Sagan
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material… — Claude Bernard
It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. — Francis Crick
Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that… — Hermann Joseph Muller
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. ... If… — Calvin Coolidge
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to… — Willis R. Whitney
All sciences are connected; they lend each other material aid as parts of one great whole, each doing its own work, not for itself alone,… — Roger Bacon
Science stands, a too competant servant, behind her wrangling underbred masters, holding out resources, devices, and remedies they are too stupid to use. ... And… — George Herbert
The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material. — Karl Pearson
Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning to use and… — Ray Lankester
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective image of the… — James Clerk Maxwell
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting… — James Clerk Maxwell
It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of… — Joseph LeConte

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