„A space of time costs of various modes of transportation, e. g., travel taking longer on foot than by air, longer upstream than down.“
— James Grier Miller biologist 1916 - 2002
Living Systems: Basic Concepts (1969)
„Here, in the last pages of the "Abegg" Variations, Schumann plays the motto theme A-B-E-G-G (B in German notation is the English Bb) not by sounding the last four notes but by taking them away, one by one, from, the chord of Bb-E-G. This is the first time in history that a melody is signified not by the attack but by the release of a series of notes. The motto, however, ends with a repeated final G. If the motto is played by releasing each successive note, we are faced with a paradox: when the G is released once on the piano, it is no longer there to be released again-the motto is not only unplayable as conceived but unimaginable. Schumann signifies as much by another paradox: he adds accents to the sustained notes.“
Zdroj: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 1 : Music and Sound
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„Baryonyx is on display at the Natural History Museum in London. If you ever get the chance to view this wonderful specimen, remember that you just might be looking at the skeleton of one of the dragons from English history and legend (e. g., Sir George the Dragon Slayer) or one of the dragons spoken of in the Bible.“
— Ken Ham Australian young Earth creationist 1951
Great Dinosaur Mystery Solved! (2000)
„We intend to release Leopard at the end of 2006 or early 2007, right around the time when Microsoft is expected to release Longhorn.“
— Steve Jobs American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc. 1955 - 2011
2000s, WWDC 2005
„If Critical Systems Thinking is to contribute to enlightened societal practice, e. g., with respect to the pressing environmental and social issues of our time, it should be accessible not only to well-trained decision makers and academics but also to a majority of citizens.“
— Robert L. Flood British organizational scientist 1959
Robert L. Flood, Norma R. A. Romm (1996) Critical Systems Thinking: Current Research and Practice. p. 165.
„score>{\clef treble \key c \minor \time 4/4 {d8 c8 ees8 c8 d8 c8 aes'8 bes'8 | g'2 r8 g'8 c8 ees8|} }</score“
— Nino Rota Italian composer 1911 - 1979
Speak Softly Love
„I happened to read recently a remark by the American nuclear physicist W. Davidson, who noted that the explosion of one hydrogen bomb releases a greater amount of energy than all the explosions set off by all countries in all wars known in the entire history of mankind. And he, apparently, is right.“
— Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1894 - 1971
Address to the United Nations, New York City (September 18, 1959), as reported by The New York Times (September 19, 1959), p. 8. The physicist quoted was eventually found to be William Davidon, associate physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois.
„We take no note of time but from its loss.“
— William Wordsworth English Romantic poet 1770 - 1850
Actually Night I, lines 55-56 of Young's Night Thoughts.
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„We take no note of time
But from its loss.“
— Edward Young, Night-Thoughts
Zdroj: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 55.
Kontext: The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.
„For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.“
— Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
Zdroj: Of Love and Shadows
„If we compare. e. g. the systems of classical mathematics and of intuitionistic mathematics, we find that the first is much simpler and technically more efficient, while the second is more safe from surprising occurences, e. g. contradictions. At the present time, any estimation of the degree of safety of the system of classical mathematics, in other words, the degree of plausibility of its principles, is rather subjective. The majority of mathematicians seem to regard this degree as sufficiently high for all practical purposes and therefore prefer the application of classical mathematics to that of intuitionistic mathematics. The latter has not, so far as I know, been seriously applied in physics by anybody.“
— Rudolf Carnap German philosopher 1891 - 1970
Rudolf Carnap (1939; 51), as cited in: Paul van Ulsen. Wetenschapsfilosofie http://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/Publications/Inaugurals/IV-10-Arend-Heyting.text.pdf, 6 november 2017.
„We humans replace the bulk of both our “hardware” (e. g., our cells) and our “software” (e. g., our memories) many times in our life span. Nonetheless, we perceive ourselves as stable and permanent. Likewise, we perceive objects other than ourselves as permanent. Or rather, what we perceive as objects are those aspects of the world that display a certain permanence. For instance, when observing the ocean, we perceive the moving waves as objects because they display a certain permanence, even though the water itself is only bobbing up and down. Similarly (…) we perceive only those aspects of the world that are fairly stable against quantum decoherence.“
— Max Tegmark, kniha Our Mathematical Universe
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality (2014)
„The result will be points of quiescence—technically known as nodes—where the air's density varies not at all, and no sound is heard. Note the paradox here: either sphere alone creates a sound wave at this point; two spheres together add up to no sound there at all. Two sources can add up to give less than one. This is the essence of destructive interference. (When two sources are giving the same instruction, the resulting vibration bears not twice but four times the energy. This phenomenon, oxymoronically known as constructive interference, may seem puzzling.)“
— Frank Wilczek physicist 1951
Zdroj: Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics (1987), Ch.12 Light as Waves
„I wonder how Feynman would feel if he had to be talking to not just a few nuts of this kind but e. g. to 2,500 similar nuts who would be moreover described by the media as good scientists, if not the best ones in the world.;-) Good for him that he managed to die in time.“
— Luboš Motl Czech physicist and translator 1973
http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/09/schellnhuber-west-has-exceeded-quotas.html
The Reference Frame http://motls.blogspot.com/
„Some of these quantities refer directly to a point of time. That is true of "capital value" as also of such quantities as demand and supply prices. Other terms – as e. g. "income", "revenue", "return", "expenses", "savings", "investments" – imply, however, a time period for which they are reckoned. But in order to be unambiguous they must also refer to a point of time at which they are calculated.“
— Gunnar Myrdal Swedish economist 1898 - 1987
Zdroj: Monetary Equilibrium (1939), p. 46-7
„I spent a lot of time teaching myself theory and harmony so I could be free to express myself on the instrument. I learned what relatives and substitutes could be played against a root of a chord, like E minor related to G, and so forth. I've also gathered all this knowledge because for ten years all I've done is play jazz, every day.“
— George Benson American musician 1943
[Denyer, Ralph, The Guitar Handbook, 2002, 115, 0-679-74275-1]
„The menace was Bolshevism. It was difficult to make people realize this, they think it is a fanatical obsession, but it was a real danger of which people should take account. It was as great a phenomenon in history and its menace to the national states of Europe as great as the migration of peoples, e. g. Mohammedan. It was necessary for Western Europe to stand together as a block against this danger.“
— Adolf Hitler Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party 1889 - 1945
Remarks to David Lloyd George (4 September 1936), quoted in Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters. 1931-1950 (Oxford University Press, 1954), p. 245
1930s
„What is our life but a succession of preludes to that unknown song whose first solemn note is sounded by death?“
— Alphonse de Lamartine, kniha Méditations poétiques
Méditations Poétiques (1820), Second series, Sermon 15
„Supergravity theories generically contain non-compact global symmetry groups. The general rule is that the scalar fields of the theory in question parametrize a symmetric space. Thus, if the non-compact symmetry group is G, and its maximal compact subgroup is H, the scalar fields map the space-time into the symmetric space G/H, and the number of scalar fields is dim G – dim H. The first supergravity example of this type to be found, N = 4 supergravity is one of the most interesting. In this case there are two scalar fields and the symmetric space is SL(2,R)/SO(2).“
— John Henry Schwarz American theoretical physicist 1941
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„Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.“
— Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886
Quoted on the web sans source. Not in the complete Poems. A 2006 self-help book attributes it verbatim to Dave Sim (see below) sans source. A 2009 reprint of Poems: Second Series mentions it in the introduction sans source (thus probably taking it from the unsourced web quote). No earlier attributions found.
Compare to a quote sourced to Dave Sim: "Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon." (Cerebus #65, 1984)
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