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Quotes About Extraction

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
~ Rudolf Carnap
Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts;
~ Alexandre Dumas
Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
~ Tahl Raz
Fossil fuels are raw materials that have to be extracted and processed. Wind and solar energy are different. The only costs associated with them are technological.
~ Tom Steyer
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
~ Ronald H. Coase
if you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything
~ Ronald H. Coase
Find the most salient, the most revelatory features of the story and expand them to the utmost, wring the last drop of juice from them.
~ Anais Nin
The light-colored stones are the newest. Dark-green stones are the oldest. Some are pea-sized or smaller, and others are as big as 1 inch in diameter. There may be dozens and, sometimes, even hundreds of stones (of different sizes and colors) coming out at once (see Figure 13b).
~ Andreas Moritz
ALMOND-FURNACE  (A'LMOND-FURNACE)    or A'LMAN-FURNACE, called also the Sweep, is a peculiar kind of furnace used in refining, to separate metals from cinders and other foreign substances.Chambers.
~ Samuel Johnson
The black expanse over our heads promise places where our industries can use resource extraction, zero-gravity manufacturing, better communications, perhaps even energy harvested in great solar farms and sent down to Earth. Companies are already planning to do so: Bigelow Aerospace (orbital hotels), Virgin Galactic (low Earth orbit tourism), Orbital Technologies (a commercial manufacturing space station), and Planetary Resources, whose goal is to develop a robotic asteroid mining industry.
~ John Brockman
Hubo extracción de hombres. Vi la raíz morada del augurio. Vi a los insectos libando el llanto, vi sangre en las iglesias amarillas
~ Antonio Gamoneda
Flue gas extraction is really, really hard to do. It's not that we can't do it - just not at a cost that anyone will bear.
~ Rex Tillerson
Natural gas emits only half the carbon dioxide of coal when burned, but if methane leaks when oil companies extract it from the ground in a sloppy manner - methane is far more potent a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide - it can wipe out all the advantages of natural gas over coal.
~ Thomas Friedman
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
~ Buckminster Fuller
Ronald Coase cynically observed that, "If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
~ Gary Smith
Ever trying to get us to behave, he banned all alcohol from the green room and was exasperated one evening when, ten minutes before the show, we all had to be extracted from the pub next door.
~ Sandi Toksvig
The painstakingly extracted purple dye was a luxury item of such prestige that the color purple became a way of showing wealth and power.
~ Mark Kurlansky
We're not really a state. We're a colony. Everything we've ever had - timber, coal - it's all been extracted out of our state. Our people have been here and have worked in those industries, and they remained poor, but the people outside of our state that are the ones that come and get the timber, get the coal, have become billionaires.
~ Richard Ojeda
From strawberries under torture one may extract all sorts of things.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
Television preachers extract money from the poor to live in a style and to indulge in shameful acts which equal or outdo the worst of the Renaissance Popes.
~ J. Irwin Miller
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.
~ Ronald Coase
The Bible is not a newspaper to be skimmed but rather a mine to be quarried.
~ Max Lucado
Spinners take out the bad stuff, leave in the good. I've always thought how nice it would be to have spinners like this for human beings. Just toss them in and let the spinner do its work.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
There are those of us that believe if you truly want to try drive down the cost of gas, if you really want to solve the problem, then you should be pursuing the extraction of our resources that are right here at home: alternative energy and traditional.
~ Jason Chaffetz