Material Strength Quotes

Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond.

In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...

Remember Tupperware? That was the toughest stuff ever. Why can't they make a phone out of Tupperware?

People are asking that question again if Max is being too tough on his equipment, but that's complete nonsense. He can't overdrive, he can't break the material. We all know what it is: it's just the equipment that isn't good enough.

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark of planethood.

I think anytime you start relying on a format to get you by you've got weak material to begin with.

Architecture ... the adaptation of form to resist force.

If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs.

Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.

Bent metal is worse than bent wood and weight for weight is more flexible.

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

In fashion even what seems most fragile must be built on cement.

Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.

An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

For the record, a mechanical engineer is responsible for how just about anything is built. We make sure any type of structure or vehicle or roadway is strong, safe and will stay together.

Trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress. This algorithm has been put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges lightweight, to make building beams lightweight.

Either the phone is so seriously thin and flimsy that it is bendable with mere physical force, which I cannot believe given the extensive tests Apple would have done. Or -- and this is far more plausible -- somehow the energy and excitement of the 10 million people who purchased iPhones has awakened their mind powers and caused the phones to bend.

A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction.