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Quotes About Solids

Rocks are the key to Earth history, because solids remember but liquids and gases forget.
~ Walter Alvarez
Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.
~ Wolfgang Ketterle
Browning butter affects more than just the color and the flavor of its milk solids; the water that butter contains also simmers away.
~ Samin Nosrat
Quantum physics forms the foundation of chemistry, explaining how molecules are held together. It describes how real solids and materials behave and how electricity is conducted through them... It enabled the development of transistors, integrated circuits, lasers, LEDs, digital cameras and all the modern gadgetry that surrounds us.
~ Neil Turok
Everything you've learned in school as obvious becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.
~ Richard Buckminster Fuller
One must remember that mathematics is like death, never makes mistakes, never plays tricks. If we are unable to see those irrational curves or solids, it only means that they inevitably possess a whole immense world somewhere beneath the surface of our life...
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
God made us angels of energy, encased in solids - currents of life dazzling through a material bulb of flesh.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Life is water dancing to the tune of solids." Without that dance, there could be no life.
~ Gerald H. Pollack
Bodily fluids and solids are universally the most disgusting things we as human beings can come upon, but as long as they are inside us, it's part of you.
~ Mary Roach
In that mycoidal phantom blooming in the dawn like an evil lotus and in the melting of solids not heretofore known to do so stood a truth that would silence poetry for a thousand years.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Fire, air, earth, and water are bodies and therefore solids, and solids are contained in planes, and plane rectilinear figures are made up of triangles.
~ Plato