Quotes About Permeability

It never ceases to amaze me that every second of every day, more than 6,000 billion neutrinos coming from nuclear reactions inside the sun whiz through my body, almost all of which will travel right through the earth without interruption.

To avoid this infiltration the bacteria alter the permeability of their cell membranes, often by altering the structure of the doorways that let outside substances into the cell. This makes it harder, or impossible, for antibiotics to sneak in — essentially keeping the level of the drug below that needed to affect the bacteria.

Piperine Warning Under no circumstances should you use piperine for severe intestinal infections such as E. coli O157:H7 or cholera. Piperine increases intestinal permeability, which can allow the resistant organisms access to the interior of your body in significantly greater numbers. It can make you much sicker.

In Wirklichkeit fühlte ich mich, als würde ich aus Zuckerwatte bestehen, und jeder, der wollte, konnte sich ein Stück von mir abpflücken und damit wegrennen.

I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.

What runs through a person like water through a sieve.

Filters let in a cup of water," he says, "but keep out the ocean.

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

she felt, with her hand on the nursery door, that community of feeling with other people which emotion gives as if the walls of partition had become so thin that practically (the feeling was one of relief and happiness) it was all one stream...

Being a mother is a lot like growing up. When, or how, did you become an adult? What was the precise moment you lost your childhood? No one can say. It's all so permeable.

How porous the boundary was between him and the world, as if everything flowed through him like water through a net. She'd worried about him, moving through a rough world as a tender bare heart, beating out in the open where anything could cause a bruise.

Boundaries have to be continuously sealed off, but it's a hopeless job, for everything touches everything else in this world. A beginning never disappears, not even with an ending.

There is an odd mix of permeability and impermeability in the Net. You won't be able to communicate with everyone, and not every application will be accessible to everyone.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak.

Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

The chemical structure of the K+ channel at its mouth strips off the water shells surrounding K+. Thus, K+ becomes smaller than Na+ and can pass through the channel, whereas Na+ cannot do so.

L'image de ta Berlinoise en train de flotter d'un lit à l'autre, ne m'attire pas comme elle a l'air de t'attirer. A la longue, on s'en laisse : on est tellement perméable qu'on se sent devenir transparent, et quand on rencontre (par exemple) un couple qui vit ensemble et dans le même village depuis cinquante ans, on en pleurerait...

It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

El cansancio abre, le hace a uno poroso, crea una permeabilidad para la epopeya de todos los seres vivos, incluso de estos animales de ahora