#material

According to the scientific naturalist version of cosmic history, nature is a permanently closed system of material effects that can never be influenced by something from outside - like God, for example. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#closed #closed system #cosmic #effects #example

To philosophical materialists God is no more than an idea in the human mind, and not a very important idea. ↗

— Phillip E. Johnson

#human #human mind #idea #important #materialists

I don't think there's a shortage of material in the world. Or in my head. I just pray for continued good health, because I've got other stories to tell. ↗

— Richard Russo

#continued #good #good health #got #head

Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#creative #dominates #forms #given #greatest

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#century #civilization #contemplate #daring #energy

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#assumed #both #dominant #faith #gave

From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#america #available #based #buildings #century

There Bomar is, wherever he is, spending a fortune every day on liquor and beautiful women and expensive playthings, when he could find peace of mind right here with us, for a mere twenty cents. --"Bomar ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#money-not-happiness #beauty

It's pretty hard to measure influence of written or visual material. ↗

— Ben Shahn

#influence #material #measure #pretty #visual

I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#feel #fits #going #great #great material