Materials Quotes

2455 quotes by 1811 authors

If we were never depressed we would not be alive - - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of… — Oswald Chambers
We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind. — Dalai Lama
What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have. — Lionel Trilling
Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit. — Robert Henri
Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention. — Robert Henri
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get… — Tim Berners-Lee
Yes, we did produce a near perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of… — Thomas Jefferson
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
We speak erroneously of "artificial" materials, "synthetics", and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things… — R. Buckminster Fuller
Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a… — Calvin Coolidge
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

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