Materials Quotes - Page 9

• Thought isn't a form of energy. So how on Earth can it change material processes? That question has still not been answered.

  Vladimir Vernadsky

  Change, Science, Earth

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• Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

  Nigel Dennis

  Photography, Mean, Painting

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• One aim of physical sciences had been to give an exact picture the material world. One achievement of physics in the twentieth century has been to prove that that aim is unattainable.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Science, Giving, Achievement

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• Thus we conclude, that the strata both primary and secondary, both those of ancient and those of more recent origin, have had their materials furnished from the ruins of former continents, from the dissolution of rocks, or the destruction of animal or vegetable bodies, similar, at least in some respects, to those that now occupy the surface of the earth.

  John Playfair

  Science, Animal, Rocks

  John Playfair, James George Playfair (1822). “Biographical memoir. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the earth”, p.32

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• If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Mean, Firsts, Ancestry

  "Speaking of Science Fiction". Book by Paul Walker, 1978.

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• Explicit material is available in a variety of forums - from popular music to television to the Internet.

  Tipper Gore

  Television, Internet, Forums

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The organic material, as the laws of chemistry state, can neither be created nor destroyed.

  Dixie Lee Ray

  Law, Chemistry, States

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• The digestive canal is in its task a complete chemical factory. The raw material passes through a long series of institutions in which it is subjected to certain mechanical and, mainly, chemical processing, and then, through innumerable side-streets, it is brought into the depot of the body. Aside from this basic series of institutions, along which the raw material moves, there is a series of lateral chemical manufactories, which prepare certain reagents for the appropriate processing of the raw material.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Moving, Science, Long

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• I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

  Kate Clinton

  Eugenics, Cds, Trying

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• Well, we're living in a material world, and I'm a material girl... or boy.

  Adam Sandler

  Girl, Boys, World

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• Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.

  Catharine Macaulay

  Men, Law, Perfect

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• There's more to life than physical and material.

  Ziggy Marley

  Redemption, More To Life

  FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from May 29, 2012

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• The new material fits very comfortably with the older stuff.

  Kathy Valentine

  Valentines Day, Stuff, Fit

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• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  Ed Pastor

  Country, Nuclear, Barcelona

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• The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Real, Example, May

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia S. Churchland, Dagfinn Føllesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.3, MIT Press

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• I am careful with my material and presentation.

  Shelley Berman

  Careful, Presentation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Method means that arrangement of subject matter which makes it most effective in use. Never is method something outside of the material.

  John Dewey

  Education, Mean, Science

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is commonly called, as a material principle and as a constituent of the whole compound the material and principle of fire, not fire itself. This I was the first to call phlogiston.

  Georg Ernst Stahl

  Fire, Principles, Hot

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• Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Understanding, World, Action

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• Obviously, if a director doesn't communicative a clear, relevant vision of the material, it will not succeed no matter how good the material.

  Tom Skerritt

  Talking, Vision, Directors

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• It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

  Robin Gibb

  Focus, Solo, Right Time

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

  George Edmund Street

  Design, Way, Execution

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• Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.

  Theophile Gautier

  Beautiful, Process, Marble

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• There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

  Ann Beattie

  Writing, Different, Might

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• The scope of material I can work with is not limited to the set of things that we inherit from nature.

  Drew Endy

  Scope, I Can

  "From the cells up" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2005.

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