Structure Quotes - Page 29

• If the experimental physicist has already done a great deal of work in this field, nevertheless the theoretical physicist has still hardly begun to evaluate the experimental material which may lead him to conclusions about the structure of the atom.

  Johannes Stark

  Fields, Atoms, Done

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• Many scientists will have to contribute to the solution of the great problem; they will have to follow up and measure all those phenomena in which the atomic structure is directly expressed.

  Johannes Stark

  Problem, Scientist, Follow Up

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• The most common and most important result of them is that the nature and size of the effect on corresponding series of different elements are largely an expression of the peculiarity of their atomic structure - or, at least, of the structure of the surface.

  Johannes Stark

  Expression, Important, Size

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• [Mitt Romney is a] Massachusetts moderate who, in fact, is pretty good at managing the decay." He's "given no evidence in his years in Massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure.

  Newt Gingrich

  Years, Political, Culture

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• There wasn't a single day in which the world was created. It's created anew at every moment. The structures of eternity are completely fluid but they are bound together by the mind forming a nexus point so reality comes into being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Reality, Mind

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• It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Buddhism, Ideas

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• In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Police

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• Al-Qaeda has a kind of loose, almost entrepreneurial structure with lots of cells in various countries that are semi-independent.

  Ron Suskind

  Country, Independent, Cells

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• What we found was that rather than being haphazardly arranged or independent pathways, we find that all of the pathways of the brain taken together fit together in a single exceedingly simple structure. They basically look like a cube. They basically run in three perpendicular directions, and in each one of those three directions the pathways are highly parallel to each other and arranged in arrays. So, instead of independent spaghettis, we see that the connectivity of the brain is, in a sense, a single coherent structure.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Running, Taken, Independent

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• The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.

  John Ralston Saul

  Winning, Power, Age

  John Ralston Saul (2013). “Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Science has discovered much. The engineering is wonderful, epicycles and all. And yet, as we look at this vast, elaborate structure built on layer and layer of complex constituents, can we help but be reminded of the Land of Oz. Have we found the Emerald City? Is this what we were searching for? Is this the ultimate fabric of reality? Is this all there is?

  Walker Evans

  Science, Reality, Engineering

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• I find it easier to believe in God than to believe Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Believe, Easier, Mutton

  William F. Buckley Jr. (2010). “Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus”, p.530, Encounter Books

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• Money is what fueled the industrial society.  But in the informational society, the fuel, the power, is knowledge. One has now come to see a new class structure divided by those who have information and those who must function out of ignorance. This new class has its power not from money, not from land, but from knowledge.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Ignorance, Land, Class

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• The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases. He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  People, Phrases, World

  "The Crisis of the Tax State" (1918)

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• Who says that fictions only and false hair
  Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
  Is all good structure in a winding stair?

  George Herbert

  Hair, Fiction, Stairs

  'Jordan (1)', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

  Wendy Carlos

  Art, Lying, Discipline

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• Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If you're not too tall and have short limbs, it may be the best exercise for you, but if you're tall with long legs, it might be both ineffective and dangerous.I was stubbornly faithful to squats for years until I finally realized they were not well-suited for my body structure. After I switched tomore muscle-intensive movements, my gains in leg size were astounding.

  Dorian Yates

  Exercise, Years, Long

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• I've never been one that thinks that the function of an instrument is to approach the purity of voice or the structure of a beautifully sung line.

  Evan Parker

  Thinking, Voice, Lines

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• To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.

  Evan Parker

  Guarantees, Way, Speak

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• Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.

  Elliott Sharp

  Philosophy, Intelligent, Two

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• Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

  Bill Mollison

  Country, Animal, Cities

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• A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist upon that critter, will probably view individuals within its community and other cultures in the community of nations, with the same type of disdain and disrespect and controlling-type mentality.

  Joel Salatin

  Pigs, Views, Other Cultures

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• My style of writing is to allow the story to unfold on its own. I try not to structure my work too rigidly.

  Anita Desai

  Writing, Style, Trying

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• There is no such thing as beauty. If your culture says, 'This is a beautiful girl,' that's within the framework of your culture. If you're brought up in an island where people have pointed heads, that would be 'beautiful' in your terms. All these mythological structures is what gets us into trouble; the artificiality of our values that get us into trouble.

  Jacque Fresco

  Beautiful, Girl, Islands

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• Given a situation, a system with a Leerstelle [a gap], whether a given completion (Lueckenfuellung) does justice to the structure, is the "right" one, is often determined by the structure of the system, the situation. There are requirements, structurally determined; there are possible in pure cases unambiguous decisions as to which completion does justice to the situation, which does not, which violates the requirements and the situation.

  Max Wertheimer

  Justice, Decision, Requirements

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