| "There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry." »Martin Gardner |
| "All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| "Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity." »R. E. Hellmund |
| "Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| "If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means." »Dag Hammarskjld |
| "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image." »Stephen Hawking |
| "Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman." »Margaret Fuller |
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