“When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside; we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.”
John Updike
“I'm not just a dreamer, I am an achiever!...”
Philip T. M.
“Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.”
Cecil Beaton
“It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We believe materials coming out of comets now is the same material that went into comets 4.5 billion years ago.”
Don Brownlee
“Ahhhhh my people struggling to mean something by means that mean nothing....When will we LEARN?”
Dedrick D. L. Pitter