Materials Quotes - Page 35

• Instead of the primitive raw material economy, we will create a smart economy generating unique knowledge, new useful things and technologies. Instead of the archaic society, in which the leaders think and make decisions for everyone, we will become a country of intelligent, free and responsible people.

  Dmitry Medvedev

  Country, Smart, Intelligent

  "Medvedev wants Russia to go hi-tech" by Maxim Tkachenko, edition.cnn.com. November 12, 2009.

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• Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rain, Independent, Rocks

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• I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Rocks, Sticks, Want

  "The lie of the land" by Richard Mabey, www.theguardian.com. March 31, 2007.

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• Movement, change, light, growth and decay are the lifeblood of nature, the energies that I I try to tap through my work. I need the shock of touch, the resistance of place, materials and weather, the earth as my source. Nature is in a state of change and that change is the key to understanding. I want my art to be sensitive and alert to changes in material, season and weather. Each work grows, stays, decays. Process and decay are implicit. Transience in my work reflects what I find in nature.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Art, Weather, Keys

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• When I’m working with materials it’s not just the leaf or the stone, it’s the processes that are behind them that are important. That’s what I’m trying to understand, not a single isolated object but nature as a whole.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Trying, Important, Stones

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• For me looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. Place is found by walking, direction determined by weather and season. I take the opportunity each day offers: if it is snowing, I work in snow, at leaf-fall it will be leaves; a blown over tree becomes a source of twigs and branches.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Fall, Opportunity, Weather

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• I can't edit the materials I work with. My remit is to work with nature as a whole. I find nature as a whole disturbing. Nature can be harsh – difficult and brutal, as well as beautiful. You couldn't walk five minutes from here without coming across something that is dead or decaying.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Beautiful, Harsh, Minutes

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• Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

  Richard Lewontin

  Commitment, Acceptance, Science

  "Billions and Billions of Demons" by Richard Lewontin, www.nybooks.com. January 9, 1997.

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• Man is the result of a purposeless and materialistic process that did not have him in mind. He was not planned. He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Animal, Men, Order

  George Gaylord Simpson (1959). “The Meaning of Evolution”

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• With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the ‘other’ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration.

  Steve Paxton

  Dark, Self, Mind

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• Software production is like any other production the preceded it, no raw materials are required, no time is required and no effort is required, you can make a million Copies of Software instantaneously for free and its very unique about that.

  John McAfee

  Unique, Effort, Raw Materials

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• The combination of both legs leads to social harmony and material abundance.

  Marshall Fritz

  Legs, Abundance, Harmony

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• Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Creative, Intellectual, Spirit

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• Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way...Im pleased that my art appeals to so many people of all ages. As a parent and an artist, Im especially looking forward to leaving a legacy at The Childrens Museum, a place where I hope my work brings joy to children who visit from all over the world.

  Dale Chihuly

  Art, Children, Museums

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• This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.

  Herbert J. Muller

  Prayer, Doctrine, Kind

  Herbert J. Muller (1952). “the Uses of the Past”

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• I’m interested in vernacular cultures, where people lived a little closer to the source of materials and the making of objects for use. And for me, not to rely strictly on the history of art has always been an interesting process, to be looking into areas that we call craft and trades.

  Martin Puryear

  Art, Interesting, People

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• I think the fans of the old-school Internet shorts were a little bit older just because it was racier material.

  Andy Milonakis

  School, Thinking, Fans

  "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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• Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art. An important aspect of the complex is the protected paradise garden, which is separated from the wild landscape by thick masonry walls. The materials used in the structure, including concrete block, car-decking, and plywood, require little to no maintenance, and are capable of withstanding the extreme weather that characterize the desert’s four seasons.

  Tom Kundig

  Art, Wall, Block

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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 torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.

  Edward Conlon

  Shadow Of Death, Bulletproof Vest, Blood

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• The poorer is a family, the greater is the proportion of the total outgo which must be used for food... The proportion of the outgo used for food, other things being equal, is the best measure of the material standard of living of a population.

  Ernst Engel

  Population, Proportion, Standards

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• One can, then, conceive the production, by purely mineral means, of all natural hydrocarbons. The intervention of heat, of water, and of alkaline metals - lastly, the tendency of hydrocarbons to unite together to form the more condensed material - suffice to account for the formation of these curious compounds. Moreover, this formation will be continuous because the reactions which started it are renewed incessantly.

  Marcellin Berthelot

  Mean, Water, Together

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• I think Chappelle set the bar when he came out with his show. To be as great as him or greater you have to push it a little further - as long as there's substance in terms of the material.

  Aries Spears

  Thinking, Long, Bars

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• All success in life, whether material or spiritual, starts with the thoughts that you put into your mind every second of every minute of every day. Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world. By controlling the thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of your life, you begin to control your destiny.

  Rohit Sharma

  Success, Spiritual, Destiny

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• Mathematics is the only instructional material that can be presented in an entirely undogmatic way.

  Max Dehn

  Math, Way, Mathematics

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• Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

  Aristotle

  Math, Skills, Egypt

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