Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key.
In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i. e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted.
And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited.
As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.
There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.
The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside.
In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words.
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas
Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.
People are not "things" to be manipulated, labeled, boxed, bought, and sold. Above all else, they are not "human resources. " They are entire human beings, containing the whole of the evolving universe, limitless until we start limiting them. We must examine the concept of leading and following with new eyes. We must examine the concept of superior and subordinate with increasing skepticism. We must examine the concept of management and labor with new beliefs. And we must examine the nature of organizations that demand such distinctions with an entirely different consciousness.
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888. ]
In the case of those solids, whether of earth, or rock, which enclose on all sides and contain crystals, selenites, marcasites, plants and their parts, bones and the shells of animals, and other bodies of this kind which are possessed of a smooth surface, these same bodies had already become hard at the time when the matter of the earth and rock containing them was still fluid. And not only did the earth and rock not produce the bodies contained in them, but they did not even exist as such when those bodies were produced in them.
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.
