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“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.”

May Self Matter Facts Helping Past Progress Materials Scientist Significant Devoted Evident Odds And Ends

Author:Ernest Lawrence

“If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.”

Ifs May Stills Done Deals Fields Materials Structure Conclusion Atoms Nevertheless Physicist Theoretical Evaluate

Author:Johannes Stark

“The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.”

Source: The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

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

May Real Example Objects Materials Familiar Admirable

Book:Word and Object

Source: Word and Object

“There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.”

May Art Body Artist Song Voice Results Vision Materials Masters Fine Strings Application Mastery Bows Canvas Brushes Marble Fine Arts Artistry Interfaces Chisels

Author:Robert Breault

“The point is that profound but contradictory ideas may exist side by side, if they are constructed from different materials and methods. and have different purposes. Each tells us something important about where we stand in the universe, and it is foolish to insist that they must despise each other.”

Ifs May Important Ideas Different Purpose Universe Sides Materials Method Profound Foolish Despise Contradictory

Author:Neil Postman

“Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.”

Men Mind May Feelings Joy Desire Culture Emotion Attitude Study Materials Comfort Skills Impulse Agriculture Fortitude Material Things Life Skills

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“Forms in art arise from the impact of idea upon material... so that thinking and belief and attitudes may endure as actual things.”

Thinking May Art Ideas Form Belief Attitude Materials Impact Endure Arise

Book:Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

Source: Ben Shahn: Paintings and Graphics : [exhibition] Santa Barbara Museum of Art, July 30, 1967-September 10, 1967; La Jolla Museum of Art, October 5, 1967-November 12, 1967 ; Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, December 3, 1967-January 3, 1968

“It is vain for painters... to endeavour to invent without materials on which the mind may work.”

Mind May Materials Painter Vain Endeavour

Book:The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

Source: The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds

“We who are rich are often demanding and difficult. We shut ourselves up in our apartments and may even use a watchdog to defend our property. Poor people, of course, have nothing to defend and often share the little they have. When people have all the material things they need, they seem not to need each other. They are self-sufficient. There is no interdependence. There is no love.”

People Needs May Littles Self Use Seems Courses Difficult Wealth Poor Rich Share Materials Property Sufficient Apartment Poor People No Love Interdependence Material Things Self Sufficient

Author:Jean Vanier

“Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.”

Way May Doe Peace Growth Moral Materials Comfort Increase Materialism Material Possessions Moral Growth

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.”

People May Poor Poverty Materials Resources Connections Income Inequality Decent Clothings Shelter Poor People Adequate Income Inequality Decent Life

Author:Robert Higgs

“What greater weakness can there be than not to know what is the source of one's being, of one's life, of one's senses, of one's knowledge, and what is to be their end? What can be more deeply disheartening than to wonder whether one's soul is, perhaps, a material thing, like a stone or a reptile, corruptible like these base creatures? Is there not more strength and greatness of mind in admitting the idea of a being superior to all other beings, who has made them all and to whom all owe their existence; of a being supremely perfect, who is pure, who had no beginning and can have no ending, of whom our soul is the image and, so to speak, a portion, being a spiritual and immortal thing?”

“Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor left, but only forward, what earthly consequences may follow is not material. Persecution strengthens him; and so he is sure he is right, whether his course end in a prison or on a throne is no matter at all. But men of this calibre are uncommon in any age or in any country very uncommon in this age and this country.”

Men Looks May Ideas Ends Country Matter Enough Age Courses Left Materials Consequence Prison Brave Surrender Thrones Persecution Reckless Uncommon

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.”

May Sometimes Light Sound Moral Materials Roots Wit Cures Maturity Disorder Remedy Trunks Few Words Reformers Antithesis Caleb

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.”

“Science contributes moral as well as material blessings to the world. Its great moral contribution is objectivity, or the scientific point of view. This means doubting everything except facts; it means hewing to the facts, let the chips fall where they may.”

World Wells May Mean Facts Fall Views Moral Doubt Materials Blessing Point Of View Contribution Chips Objectivity Doubting Everything

Author:Aldo Leopold