Quotes About Description

Albeit they doubt the achivement, Never can they cease it or take it away from you. For it carries a signal and a description of your tremendous effort...

What we can do is to establish a bridge between the various levels in order to form a coherent picture; the whole of Boltzmann's work is a masterpiece of this procedure, i.e. how to construct, starting from atoms, a description that explains everyday life.

The world is complex, and we capture it with different languages, each appropriate to the process that we are describing.

Any description of a system is therefore always a description of the information a system has about another system, that is to say, the correlation between the two systems.

Heat, entropy, and the lower entropy of the past are notions that belong to an approximate, statistical description of nature.

Our entire current technology is founded on the use of a physical thing-electromagnetic waves-that was not discovered empirically: it was predicted by Maxwell, simply by searching for the mathematical description accounting for the intuition Faraday got from bobbins and needles. This is the outstanding power of theoretical physics.

Any description of a system is therefore always a description of the information a system has about another system, that is to say, the correlation between the two systems. The

The world described by the theory is thus further distanced from the one with which we are familiar. There is no longer space that "contains" the world, and there is no longer time "in which" events occur. There are only elementary processes wherein quanta of space and matter continually interact with one another.

Newton asserts explicitly in his book that we can't ever measure the true time t, but if we assume that it exists, we can set up an efficient framework to describe nature.

There was no description of the years in town, of supplementing farm income with wages, or of the anxiety engendered by poverty.

Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.

Ser Jorah was not a handsome man. He had a neck and shoulders like a bull, and coarse black hair covered his arms and chest so thickly that there was none left for his head.

Obara, rusted nails and boiled leather, with her angry, close-set eyes and rat-brown hair. Nymeria, languid, elegant, olive-skinned, her long black braid bound up in red-gold wire. Tyene, blue-eyed and blond, a child-woman with her soft hands and little giggles

The veins stood out on her angry temples like wormcasts.

The man was tall as a house and from the deepness of his complexion, a full black.

I've already explained

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.

They are gorgeous. They have beautiful blue eyes and lovely dark hair - that's the typical Irish.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

Even wars, big conflicts that have drawn a lot of news coverage, sometimes seem to me to have a center that hasn't been described, that might yet be glimpsed if approached from some odd angle.

A screenplay is a story told with pictures, in dialogue and description, and placed within the context of dramatic structure.

M. Comte's philosophy in practice might be compendiously described as Catholicism minus Christianity.

Writing a screenplay is so spare, it kind of reminded me that I really should celebrate what I can do in a book, which is description: for example, places, people, locations.