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Quotes About Elements

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Fire, and hail; snow, and vapours; stormy wind fulfilling his word.
~ Psalm 148:8
The very psychology of men and women about their mutual relation is changing and becoming the psychology of the primitive fighting elements, rather than of humanity seeking its completeness through the union based upon mutual self-surrender.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
For the elements which have lost their living bond of reality have lost the meaning of their existence.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.
~ Sam Kean
The best horror walks a line that's completely on a psychological level, not needing the typical tropes of traditional horror filmmaking, then also having to tease out those elements in a way that makes the audience feel like they know what they're in.
~ Karyn Kusama
It's hard to get the right elements together, get the right cast, get them at the time you need them, get the script completely there, and get the right budget.
~ Valerie Faris
Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.
~ Powers Boothe
The great thing about a sitcom is that you're in front of a live audience, so you really get in touch with what audience reaction is, but also there are lots of elements of film that you're dealing with, and there's kind of a great boot camp or graduate school mentality to it, because you're going to suck.
~ Topher Grace
Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.
~ Francis Parkman
If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.
~ Sam Kean
See yonder leafless tree against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And ever subdividing separate, Limbs into branches, branches into twigs, As if they loved the element, & hasted To dissipate their being into it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
How does Nature deify us with a few and cheap elements! Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe is an amazing puzzle, I thought as I looked upon this dizzying series of forms—radiant crystals, shining metals, gauzy butterflies, sea shells that seemed carved by a master artisan, the birds, beasts, insects, snakes, fish. All things are united by the same life force. Even rocks are formed from the same elements, sharing a kinship with plants and animals. These diverse expressions of nature seem so different at first glance, yet ultimately they are all connected.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?
~ Ray Bradbury
Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder go when it dies?
~ Ray Bradbury
Let the earth and the sea each have its own.
~ Joseph Conrad
In meditation, we free ourselves from attachment to that conceptualization and experience the fundamental unity of the elements which comprise our being.
~ Joseph Goldstein
Time and how are the mysterious elements of any life.
~ Joy Harjo
There is only one road to follow, that of analysis of the basic elements in order to arrive ultimately at an adequate graphic expression.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. —Lawrence M. Krauss, physicist
~ Wendy Mass
The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.
~ Wilhelm Wundt
Valid intuitions develop when experts have learned to recognize familiar elements in a new situation and to act in a manner that is appropriate to it. Good
~ Daniel Kahneman
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do.
~ Daniel Quinn