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Quotes About Material

Everything but a life can be replaced.
~ Marty Rubin
Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.
~ Unknown
My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.
~ Tadao Ando
There is no limit to beauty, no saturation point in design, no end to the material.
~ Unknown
Objects and their manufacture are inseparable, you understand a product if you understand how it's made.
~ Jonathan Ive
For the material, at best, is only temporal, or temporary, while that which may be built from spiritual desire, spiritual purposes, is eternal.
~ Edgar Cayce
But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.
~ William Shakespeare
I think one of the unique aspects of Catholic school education is the opportunity to care for the material and intellectual needs of the child in a community atmosphere.
~ Mark Foley
Wormholes don't exist because the only way they would exist is if they were seeded with exotic material created by an intelligence far beyond our own. Something would have to make one.
~ Jonathan Nolan
I went to the library and found lots of material about this time, about the Freedom March and what was going on down there in 1964.
~ Glenne Headly
La variedad es la promesa que la materia hace a los seres vivos.
~ Diane Ackerman
Yes, but negative is an illusion. Negative and positive are both construction material. Negative is evolutionary catalyst. D: But you know humans consider something negative as being bad. C: They should reword it to evolutionary catalyst. We have been given on purpose these catalysts for evolution. These things that appear negative... these things are on purpose.
~ Dolores Cannon
There was something touching about the fact that Murray was dressed almost totally in corduroy.
~ Don DeLillo
dreams (the waste material of premonitions).
~ Don DeLillo
Good designers worry a lot about the physical feel of their products. Physical touch and feel can make a huge difference in your appreciation of their creations. Consider the delights of smooth, polished metal, or soft leather, or a soil ...
~ Donald A. Norman
I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And when he agreed, I asked how, if God was a spirit, He could be a man, if He didn't have a body or anything.
~ Donna Leon
In our material world, every single happening or event of whatever kind involves a conversion of energy from one into another of its many forms.
~ Unknown
stress' in a solid is rather like the 'pressure' in a liquid or a gas. It is a measure of how hard the atoms and molecules which make up the material are being pushed together or pulled apart as a result of external forces.
~ Unknown
it is quite possible to break a bow by 'shooting' it without an arrow.
~ Unknown
Numerically, the stress in any direction at a given point in a material is simply the force or load which happens to be acting in that direction at the point, divided by the area on which the force acts.
~ Unknown
slope of the stress-strain diagram measures how readily each material strains elastically under a given stress.
~ Unknown
pressure acts in all three directions within a fluid while the stress in a solid is often a directional or one-dimensional affair.
~ Unknown
The quantity of energy required to break a given cross-section of a material defines its 'toughness', which is nowadays more often called its 'fracture energy' or 'work of fracture'.
~ Unknown
Resilience may be defined as 'the amount of strain energy which can be stored in a structure without causing permanent damage to it'.
~ Unknown