Materials Quotes

2455 Materials quotes by 1763 unique authors

Humanity stands ... before a great problem of finding new raw materials and new sources of energy that shall never become exhausted. In the meantime… — Svante Arrhenius
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and… — Maurice Wilkins
[In geology,] As in history, the material in hand remains silent if no questions are asked. The nature of these questions depends on the "school"… — Reinout Willem van Bemmelen
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a… — Dmitri Mendeleev
All life is linked together in such a way that no part of the chain is unimportant. Frequently, upon the action of some of these… — Unknown Author
The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given… — Robert Mayer
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
The burgeoning field of computer science has shifted our view of the physical world from that of a collection of interacting material particles to one… — Paul Davies
There have been many authorities who have asserted that the basis of science lies in counting or measuring, i.e. in the use of mathematics. Neither… — Unknown Author
Inside the glittery, swanky cases-the 'modern art' materials that were all the rage at the time, Formica and glass and plastic-was something very unpleasant, very… — Unknown Author
The nature of light is a subject of no material importance to the concerns of life or to the practice of the arts, but it… — Thomas Young
Paradoxical as it may seem, men and women who are free to pursue individualism and material wealth turn out to be the most compassionate of… — Unknown Author
Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the conquered foe to augment one's own strength. — Sun Tzu
Life beats down and crushes our souls and theatre reminds us that we have one. At least the type of theatre that I'm interested in;… — Sanford Meisner
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but… — Andre Gide
To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience. — George A. Sheehan
... the ecological problem of our times demands a radical reevaluation of how we see the entire world; it demands a different interpretation of matter… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Only an empowered personality can distribute the holy name of the Lord and enjoin all fallen souls to worship Krishna. By distributing the holy name… — Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
And what is life? God manifested in the material plane. For it is in Him that we live and move and have our being. — Edgar Cayce
The material and the spiritual are but two parts of one universe and one truth. By overstressing one part or the other, man fails to… — Paramahansa Yogananda
And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
[The canonization of the Koran involved the] attribution of several, partially overlapping, collections of logia [sayings] (exhibiting a distinctly Mosaic imprint) to the image of… — Unknown Author
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary… — W H Murray
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. — George Bernard Shaw

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