“As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.” BeautifulTakenMissingPerfectionScientistPhotographExtremesClaritySubstanceRaysDistinguishedFranklin Author:John Desmond Bernal
“We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.” CertainMoralOur LivesHabitActivityPerfectionSubstanceGood Habits Author:Thomas Merton
“You see a fleeting perfection of form merging with a significant substance, and you make a clicking noise only a hair's breadth away. You have judged something, reported something, ostensibly truthfully... And when you made a clicking noise you said something eloquently if you are skilled.” IfsMadeSaidFormHairPerfectionSignificantNoiseSubstanceJudgedFleetingBreadthMerging Author:Burk Uzzle
“Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to nicotine, alcohol, and other substances, there are psychological addictions, such as the addiction to work, sex, television, melodrama, and perfection.” SexNumbersTelevisionCivilizationDiseasePerfectionAddictionAlcoholPsychologicalSubstanceRelatedMelodramaNicotine Author:Deepak Chopra
“[On common water.] Its substance reaches everywhere; it touches the past and prepares the future; it moves under the poles and wanders thinly in the heights of air. It can assume forms of exquisite perfection in a snowflake, or strip the living to a single shining bone cast up by the sea.” PastMovingFormScienceWaterCommonAirSeaFuturePerfectionShiningAssumingCastsBonesWanderSubstanceHeightExquisiteSnowflake Author:Loren Eiseley
“Substance should outweigh perfection.” ShouldPerfectionSubstance Book:Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music Source: Making Records: The Scenes Behind the Music