Quotes About Oscillation

The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum.

Water is indifferent in this way to the objects which fall into it. It does not weigh them; it is they which weigh themselves, after a certain time of oscillation.

Bitterness, principle of your determination, your mode of action, and understanding, is the one fixed point in your oscillation between disgust for the world and self-pity.

That's me. Exist in the swing. Never still, never one thing or the other, always moving from one extreme to the furthest reaches of the other.

It's strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally.

Social control through consumerism might have been more benign than through more totalitarian methods, but it set up different kinds of distortions that were increasingly enacted in the deep oscillation between hedonism and puritanism.

A continual oscillation between extremes, with bare stretches that taste like brass and leave the full flavor of emptiness.

Le monde n'est qu'une balançoire perpétuelle. Toutes choses y balancent sans cesse.

Third, the atoms 'oscillated' within objects when bumped into by their neighbours.

Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle.

We are now beyond nature's normal variation in terms of how the atmosphere is composed. Nature did something for a million years. It actually goes back a lot further than that, but the ice core records show a million years. So, nature has this normal oscillation within this zone, and all of a sudden, we're forty percent outside that zone.

The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.

We see the world around us in color. What is color? Put simply, it is the frequency (the speed of oscillation) of the electromagnetic wave light is. If the wave vibrates more rapidly, the light is bluer. If it vibrates a little more slowly, the light is redder. Color as we perceive it is our psychophysical reaction of the nerve signal generated by the receptors of our eyes, which distinguish electromagnetic waves of different frequencies.

Although every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and longing.

Even when a damped, driven system is at equilibrium, it is not at equilibrium

I go up and down the scale so often that if they ever perform an autopsy on me they'll find me like a strip of bacon — a streak of lean and a streak of fat.

In space, free of friction, periodic motion comes from the orbits of heavenly bodies, but on earth virtually any regular oscillation comes from some cousin of the pendulum. Basic electronic circuits are described by equations exactly the same as those describing a swinging bob. The electronic oscillations are millions of times faster, but the physics is the same.

Because an interferential effect takes place between the two graphite gloves, a complex of frequencies was created in the body that included each frequency by itself as well as the sum of the two frequencies and their difference.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

People are gonna go up and down and people are gonna come in and out of this sport.

Since we try and take a fairly buy-and-hold approach to our newsletter portfolios and don't sell at every whipsaw, we want to have a mix of stocks that will perform at both ends of the oscillation.

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Theory and experiment both show us that light does not need a material medium for propagation. We would have no trouble understanding this if light were nothing but particles zooming along through empty space. But that is not the way it goes: Light is a vibration, an oscillation made up of elementary oscillations we call photons. But there is no substance that oscillates when light propagates; thus we cannot impede the propagation of light when we remove substances from some given space.

You don't even have to move for everything to become horribly complicated, for things to happen, for there to be anger and iitigation, you only have to breathe in this world, the slightest in-breath or out-breath like the minimum swaying inevitable in all light objects hanging by a thread, our veiled and neutral gaze like the inert oscillation of toy airplanes suspended from a ceiling, and that always end up going into battle because of that minimal tremor or pulsation.