Synthetic Quotes
55 quotes by 54 authors
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The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that since 2005, and it's likely…
— Stewart Brand
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True poetry is truer than science, because it is synthetic, and seizes at once what the combination of all the sciences is able, at most,…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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In the field one has to face a chaos of facts, some of which are so small that they seem insignificant; others loom so large…
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness
— Abdul Kalam
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Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience,…
— Max Horkheimer
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I cannot put this poison on my skin. I do not use anything synthetic.
— Gisele Bundchen
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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
— Serge Daney
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My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself…
— Salvador de Madariaga
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"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.…
— Benjamin Franklin
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We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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The city man, in his neon-and-mazda glare, knows nothing of nature's midnight. His electric lamps surround him with synthetic sunshine. They push back the dark.…
— Edwin Way Teale
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The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your…
— Edward Conlon
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The person I love would never wear fur. Fur just makes me think of shallow women who have no conscience. The fur industry belongs to…
— Gavin Rossdale
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Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to…
— John Zerzan
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I got a pair of red, synthetic satin women's pants through the post the other day with a phone number on. That was quite strange.…
— Jarvis Cocker
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We live in a kind of dark age, craftily lit with synthetic light, so that no one can tell how dark it has really gotten.…
— Martin Prechtel
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Don’t try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.
— Alexander Rodchenko
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When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.
— Stanislav Grof
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We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable,…
— Helmut Jahn
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