Jackson Pollock

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

American Artist

Rick Tumlinson

To settle space, we will have to develop the ability to harvest and utilize the resources of the solar system, such as ores, ice, and the rays of the sun itself at levels of efficiency that will transform our relationship to our own planet Earth.

American Businessman

Susan Vreeland

When I learned that near Roussillon there were ochre quarries and mines from which was extracted the ore which produced pigments in all the warm hues of the color wheel, I had a substantial artistic link to this region beyond mere love.

American Author

Sabine Baring-Gould

Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure ores have been fused, or it is a full turbid river drawn from numerous feeders, which had their sources in remote climes.

English Clergyman

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

English Writer

Jonathan Ive

Unless we understand a certain material - metal or resin and plastic - understanding the processes that turn it from ore, for example - we can never develop and define form that's appropriate.

English Designer

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

British Scientist

Lakshmi Mittal

We are not in the business of iron ore. Whatever captive iron ore sources we have, we use it to make steel.

Indian Businessman

Edgar Allan Poe

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.

American Poet

Mark Twain

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

American Writer

Understanding 'ore' requires basic knowledge of geology and mining

Geological Context

'Ore' often appears in discussions about industrial processes and economics

Industrial Relevance

Ores imply potential value once processed, not necessarily value in raw form

Value Implication

The second definition uses 'ore' metaphorically to describe rich qualities or resources

Metaphorically Rich

When used metaphorically, 'ore' highlights positive aspects worth exploring or developing

Positive Attributes

The metaphorical use suggests that such qualities are as valuable and rare as physical ores

Rarity and Value

Ore as a unit of weight is specific to Scandinavian countries and often unknown elsewhere

Scandinavian Measure

Weight in ores is typically mentioned in contexts like jewelry making or antiques trading

Jewelry and Antiques

Use of 'ore' as a measure implies dealing with valuable materials like gold or diamonds

Precious Materials

 Yeah, look, I'm in the iron ore business, and I compete against the scrap metal business, and that's why you don't have any scrap lying around to trip over, and cut your toe on, because it gets collected. This isn't your excuse to go into the plastic recycling business. No, I am going to cheer for this boom.

A radical plan to end...

 This led her to conclude that radiation was coming from something fundamental within the atoms of each element. The idea was radical and helped to disprove the long-standing model of atoms as indivisible objects. Next, by focusing on a super radioactive ore called pitchblende,

The genius of Marie...

 a gas which seeps up from the ground. We also refine naturally occurring radioactive ores to fuel nuclear power plants. Even bananas contain trace amounts of a radioactive potassium isotope. So if we live in a world of radiation, how can we escape its dangerous effects?

Is radiation dangerous?...

 you have massive heavy metal deposits that we're making in this mountain range we're making huge discoveries of large commercial grade ore along this mountain range but it was dwarfed was dwarfed by what we discovered we discovered a profusion of life in a world that it

On exploring the oceans...

 to get gold out of a ton of old mobile phones than it is out of a ton of gold ore? There's a number of highly complex and valuable materials embodied inside these things, so we need to find ways of encouraging disassembly, because this is otherwise what happens.

Leyla Acaroglu: Paper...

 area this is where the ore body is so all of this would be stripped minded I don't have a problem I use copper we're probably using copper here tonight I use copper in my computer but if it jeopardizes you know the environment and a lifestyle

Hidden Alaska PIPE National...

 metal out of rock out of the ore and we use fire to drive much of the crucial chemistry that our society today depends on like making artificial fertilizers which feed over 2 billion people on the planet today our modern world is as

How to rebuild the world...

 and have a different relationship to that resource or that place than a young kid from Montana raised to believe that a mountain is a pile of rock ready to be mined. Whether it's the abode of a spirit or a pile of ore is irrelevant.

Wade Davis: Cultures at...

 that we use every single day? It's mostly many types of plastics and many types of metals. And the metals, we typically get from ore that we mine in ever widening mines and ever deepening mines around the world.

Mike Biddle: We can...

 one before in the world in collections and museums yes that uranium ore it's certainly the biggest moth I've seen flying the biggest cicadas in flying and

Ore

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