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Quotes About Elements

A technology cluster consists of one or more distinguishable elements of technology that are perceived as being closely interrelated.
~ Everett M. Rogers
Every element contributes to building a character and I'm especially fascinated when it comes to recreating period looks.
~ Shriya Pilgaonkar
The media has bought into the whole social revolution, the Kinsey ideas, and has been completely taken over by the feminists. And the feminists, I think, are the most destructive elements in our society.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.
~ Edward Everett
The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.
~ Dmitri Mendeleev
The constituents of tragedy may be universally acknowledged, easily invoked and deeply felt, but the elements of comedy are, I think, more widely variable from person to person.
~ Paul Di Filippo
The body tends to treat elements in the same column of the periodic table as equivalents.
~ Sam Kean
The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most of these are old - considerably older than our Sun or its neighbors - because this part of the galaxy formed first. Consequently, bulge stars are generally deficient in heavy elements.
~ Seth Shostak
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.
~ Annabelle Selldorf
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
~ Harry Houdini
When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episode, but if people are falling out because there are just too many elements in it, you have to begin to get rid of things.
~ Ken Burns
The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.
~ Joe Biden
I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.
~ John Barton
Along with rising and falling water, winter is the province of wind. When the sea-breath and mountain-roar bend the hemlocks of these hills, the birds hang on as best they can.
~ Robert Michael Pyle
Objects are characterized by three essential properties: state, identity, and behavior.
~ Robert Sedgewick
Bones aren't made of calcium Here's what bones are made of: • Calcium • Zinc • Potassium • Selenium • Magnesium • Boron • Manganese • Phosphorus • Silica • Sulfur • Iron • Chromium • And traces of 64 other minerals. That's what bones are made of, a total of 76 ionizing minerals.
~ Robert Thompson
The atmosphere is possessive of its water. While the clouds are generous with their rain, the sky always calls it back again with the inexorable pull of evaporation.
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Before there was any water there were tides of fire, both our tones flow from the older fountain.
~ Robinson Jeffers
The suits are usually ordered Wands, Cups, Swords, and Disks.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
First to bloom in the primary colors of yellow, blue, and red are the Fool, the Hanged Man, and the Aeon. These three personify the powers and qualities of the three mother letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the primitive elements of air, water, and fire.69
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
Figure 17. The court cards are elemental aspects of the ace. Table 3. Elemental Subdivisions of the Aces and Court Cards Four pentagrams, representing the ace and four court cards of each suit, are placed upon the extremities the Rose Cross of Manifestation.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
In his discussion of the trumps, Crowley goes so far as to identify three cards with the alchemical elements: the Magus is mercury, the Empress is salt, and the Emperor is sulfur.
~ Lon Milo DuQuette
If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.
~ Salman Rushdie