Liquids And Solids Quotes

#1. After all the work of the philosophers on his soul and the doctors on his body, what can we really say we know about a man? That he is, when all is said and done, just a passage for liquids and solids, a pipe of flesh.

Lawrence Durrell

#2. A plasma is the "fourth state of matter." Solids, liquids, and gases make up the three familiar states of matter, but the most common form of matter in the universe is plasma, a gas of ionized atoms.

Michio Kaku

#3. Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

Dean Koontz

#4. I remain totally convinced that if we can do one more simple thing to help kids and adults to learn more, it is to inspire them to read more.

Dolly Parton

#5. The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.

Ban Ki-moon

#6. I believe the most degrading thing in the world is to be treated worse than a starving dog by five growling, muscle-bound thugs, better known as screws!

Stephen Richards

#7. Rocks are the key to Earth history, because solids remember but liquids and gases forget.

Walter Alvarez

#8. In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there.

Kent Nerburn

#9. There are more than one hundred thousand ships at sea carrying all the solids, liquids and gases that we need to live.

Rose George

#10. Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.

Wolfgang Ketterle

#11. The ordinary man considers solids and liquids and the energy manifestations of the material world to be vastly different, but the yogi sees them as various vibrations of the one cosmic light.

Paramahansa Yogananda