The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
It is through vision that innovation is conceived;through will power it is then materialized.
I never got nervous performing my own material.
I am totally unattached to material items.
The conflict between science and religion has a single and simple cause. It is the designation as religiously canonical of any conception of the material world open to scientific investigation....As a matter of fact, most of the dogmatic religions ha...
I believe that secularism is not the enemy of spirituality. Our spirits are in fact secular and free. But the enemy of your spirit is materialism which produces legalism. People scramble for the "perfect law" in order fix everything, while failing to...
The human body cannot survive being in temperatures over 200 degrees centigrade for more than a few moments, especially in the fast moving current of a surge. Trying to breathe in the dense cloud of hot ash in the absence of oxygen would lead to unco...
The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and im...
In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne’s lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean sky, struggle toward acc...
Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked about the sin of gluttony or excess. We talk about the Problem of Drink--as if drink could be a problem. When pe...
Whenever a state or an individual cited 'insufficient funds' as an excuse for neglecting this important thing or that, it was indicative of the extent to which reality had been distorted by the abstract lens of wealth. During periods of so-called eco...
Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same.
What's great about well-written material is, if you can shock with justifiable actions, that's the best.
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
I became fascinated by the fact that you could translate written material into performance.
Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.
If you see me on Friday, you'll see different material on Saturday night.
The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?