Quotes About Equilibrium

Time lessens all extremes and reduces 'em to mediums and unconcern.

Consistency isn't behaving the same way all the time.

Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time.

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.

At this time the country needs to regain equilibrium and direction. It needs to recover the memory of the best it has done, and then try to do it all better.

It is the elegance of nature that creates even the appearance of simplicity... It is not respectable to say that an organism is designed to be both stable as an entity and mutable in response to environment, though it must be said that this complex equilibrium is amazing and beautiful and everywhere repeated in a wealth of variations that can seem like virtuosity regaling itself with its own brilliance.

Moreover, Galileo argued that by pursuing science using the language of mechanical equilibrium and mathematics, humans could understand the divine mind.

Dad said certain people's sanity, in order to maintain a healthy equilibrium, required getting messy once in a while, what he called going Chekhovian: some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

That's life! Sometimes you're on the horse's back, and sometimes it's the horse that's on your back.

For a gift that does not find balance and a service that is not returned are worth less than a curse.

Si suprime sus emociones y trata de eliminarlas de su vida, o si las magnifica y permite que lo controlen todo, estará despilfarrando uno de los recursos más preciosos de la vida.

Moderation in all things

By the mean of the thing I denote a point equally distant from either extreme, which is one and the same for everybody; by the mean relative to us, that amount which is neither too much nor too little, and this is not one and the same for everybody.

There is no such thing as observing a mean in excess or deficiency, nor as exceeding or falling short in observance of a mean.

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean

Virtue lies in moderation

mean is the cause

From whence it is evident, that those who seek for what is just, seek for a mean; now law is a mean.

But Justice, it must be observed, is a mean state not after the same manner as the forementioned virtues, but because it aims at producing the mean, while Injustice occupies both the extremes.

The universe is full of energy, but much of it is at equilibrium. At equilibrium no energy can flow, and therefore it cannot be used for work, any more than the level waters of a pond can be used to drive a water-wheel. It is on the flow of energy out of equilibrium—the small fraction of "useful" energy, "exergy"—that life depends.

the equilibrium state of the cosmos is death….

Dark had meant Dora, had meant words and events sordid with self. Struggling to the light from Dora's darkness, Caro had acquired conscience and equilibrium like a profound, laborious education. Exercise of principle would always require more from her than from persons nurtured in it, for she had learned it by application of will. Caro would never do the right thing without knowing it, as some could.

It is not proven that Elizabeth's person equilibrium was set off balance by the slant of the office floor, nor could it be proven that it was Elizabeth who pushed the building off its foundations, but it is undeniable that they began to slip at about the same time.