Nina Simone

Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It's like being between the keys of a piano. The notes are there, you can sing them, but they can't be found on any instrument. That's like me. I live in between this. I live in both worlds, the black and white world.

American Musician

Adele

I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.

English Singer

Albert Einstein

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

German Physicist

Sanjeeda Sheikh

Love is out of this world feeling; nothing is as pure as love.

Indian Actress

Stephen Graham Jones

There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.

American Author

Hilton Als

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.

American Writer

David Hume

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

Scottish Philosopher

Oscar Wilde

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Irish Poet

Gladys Berejiklian

I try and live my life simply and purely.

Australian Politician

Saint Augustine

Saint

Use 'pure' to describe something with no physical mixtures, often valuable or of high quality.

Literal Purity

'Pure' can highlight the authentic nature of a material, suggesting it's genuine and not fake.

Emphasize Authenticity

Metaphorically, 'pure' implies something is complete or absolute without mixed feelings.

Metaphorical Use

'Pure' often relates to nature, emphasizing cleanliness or untouched by pollution.

Environmental Context

In a moral context, 'pure' describes someone's good nature or intentions.

Moral Innocence

'Pure' may imply that an outcome hasn't been influenced by external factors, just by chance.

Uninfluenced Outcome

Use 'pure' for sounds, to describe clarity and pleasing auditory qualities, free from noise.

Clarity of Sounds

 of being disregarded as pure fiction. However, there's a good chance that the Minotaur and other monsters and gods were created by our early ancestors to rationalize the terrifying things that they saw in the natural world but did not understand. And while we can't explain every aspect of their stories,

The scientific origins...

 I feel it's very important to talk about a specific crop and a specific product, and think about the needs of the consumer. So part of what's happening here is that there's a mental model in a lot of people that nature is nature, and it's pure and pristine, and to tinker with it is Frankensteinian.

Pamela Ronald: The case...

 If people were only fighting and competing throughout human evolution, natural selection would lead to more lefties being the ones that made it until there were so many of them, that it was no longer a rare asset. So in a purely competitive world,

Why are some people...

 stigma the truth about bipolar disorder and mental illness really is no one really talks about it I've shared my condition with a few friends privately their reactions have ranged from surprise sympathetic pure uncomfortable they think they know

Understanding bipolar...

 Electromagnetic radiation is pure energy consisting of interacting electrical and magnetic waves oscillating through space. As these waves oscillate faster, they scale up in energy. At the lower end of the spectrum, there's radio, infrared,

Is radiation dangerous?...

 who had boasted that none of his work would ever be found useful in describing any phenomena in the real world, helped establish cryptography. Another piece of his purely theoretical work became known as the Hardy-Weinberg law in genetics,

Is math discovered or...

 how they move what characterizes a pair involvin is it's pure ability to hunt at high speed in the open-air space the more that I was involved in flight with furs and started seeing their speed the

High-Velocity Falcon PIPE...

 faster than the human brain. And a far bigger proportion of the neurons in Kali's brain are dedicated purely to the detection of movement. She almost can't help but pounce.

How Do Cats Use Their...

 faster than the human brain and a far bigger proportion of the neurons in Callie's brain are dedicated purely to the detection of movement she almost can't help but pants

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 the truth is somewhat different although the bites are painful against people they are purely defensive the jaws may slice through human flesh