Material Quotes

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The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our… — John Eccles
With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value.… — Gary Fisher
Others of them employ outward marks ... They style themselves Gnostics. They also possess images, some of them painted and others formed from different kinds… — Irenaeus of Lyons
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig
I am only a physicist with nothing material to show for my labours. I have never even seen the ionosphere, although I have worked on… — Edward Victor Appleton
Without an acquaintance with chemistry, the statesman must remain a stranger to the true vital interests of the state, to the means of its organic… — Justus von Liebig
Where the eye is focused, there the imagination finds its raw material. The right focus must be won at immense cost and discipline. Train the… — Ravi Zacharias
Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of… — Alain de Botton
Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material. — Dorothy Richardson
The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did… — Diana Krall
Hope is the raw material of losers. — Fernando Flores
It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make… — Eric Bogosian
Geology ... offers always some material for observation. ... [When] spring and summer come round, how easily may the hammer be buckled round the waist,… — Archibald Geikie
I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the… — John Eccles
The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of… — Arthur David Ritchie
Where the material ends, art begins. — Etienne Hajdu
Color is sensitivity in material form, substance in its purest form. — Yves Klein
We stand for a use of color free from the imitation of things as colored objects. We stand for an aerial vision in which the… — Carlo Carra
The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience, makes it posible… — Albert Hofmann

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