Materials Quotes

2455 Materials quotes by 1763 unique authors

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
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

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