(22 quotes found)
“The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We spent four days looking for a non-expired synthetic graft worldwide and then all of sudden there was a 30-year-old female donor available and we went straight into surgery.”
Alisa Camplin
“The Netherlands is like the Afghanistan of Europe … Eighty percent of synthetic drugs come from there.”
Cem Cehdioglu
“That was the play of the game. It was raining, the grass was wet, and when you have wet synthetic turf it is difficult to catch a ball and grasp it very well. I threw it home as hard as I could, because a soft throw wouldn't work, and it worked out well.”
Yulieski Gourriel
“We thought we could mimic some aspects of these special living spaces in synthetic scaffolds that degrade and become absorbed by the body after the cells move away.”
David Mooney
“We aren't going to see that big drop in synthetic fuel that we were worried about.”
William Crow
“We can and should view synthetic worlds as essentially unregulated playgrounds for economic organization.”
Edward Castronova
“One morning, there was minus 18 (degrees Celsius) and I was forced to train on a synthetic pitch without any medical assistance.”
Michael Thwaite
“Because of the photographic reproduction, it can only be printed on synthetic, so (the garments are) all polyesters, which feel amazing, ... For a while, polyester just mimicked fine fabrics so there was really no reason for it to exist, but now they have made such great leaps such as inventing truly new hands, beautiful new drapes, new possibilities that were never really there before.”
Todd Oldham
“We airbrushed satin to make it look like chinchilla fur, ... We used silk and synthetic threads to imitate ermines and fluffy fabrics and then used silk chiffon and quilted it to look like sheared beaver.”
