Materials Quotes

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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
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use excellent methods and… — Wolfgang Ostwald
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
To be worthy of the name, an experimenter must be at once theorist and practitioner. While he must completely master the art of establishing experimental… — Claude Bernard
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in… — Norman Mailer
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
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer… — Pope Francis
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914 which finally brought… — Robert Andrews Millikan
It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature. The application of… — Louis Agassiz
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part is to the… — Frank Lloyd Wright
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that… — Eudora Welty
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that… — Denis Waitley
There is as much difference between a collection of mentally free citizens and a community molded by modern methods of propaganda as there is between… — Bertrand Russell

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