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Quotes About Valence

The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that they have experienced depression because of their debt. Nine in 10 reported experiencing anxiety.
~ Annie Lowrey
Seaborg's team developed two separation processes to take advantage of the different chemistries of plutonium's several different valence states.
~ Richard Rhodes
The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.
~ Philip Warren Anderson
Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds.
~ Alfred Werner
Tig was a unique element with all valences open.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
psychological constructs fall under five broad functional domains or systems: negative valence systems (e.g., threat processing), positive valence systems (reward processing), cognitive systems (e.g., attention, perception, memory, working memory, executive function), arousal and regulatory systems (e.g., brain arousal, circadian rhythm, motivation), and social processing systems (e.g., attachment, separation).
~ Joseph LeDoux
The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.
~ Evan Thompson
Disculpe, pero ¿podría decirme por qué yo no tengo compañero, mientras que todos los demás lo tienen? —le gritó. —¿Por qué? ¡Porque éste es un átomo impar y tú eres el electrón de valenciaaa…!
~ George Gamow
Personally, speaking as a historian and a storyteller, when it comes to inaccuracy in historical fictioneering, I follow the Shakespeare principle: I'm willing to overlook gobs of mistaken detail if the poetic valence is basically correct.
~ Rick Perlstein
prefrontally mediated, in which we attribute these shifts to what we've seen in the other person. Naturally, such a complex pathway can be bogged down by rigid valenced plateaus of probability, which skew accurate interpretations of the meaning of sensations.
~ Daniel J. Siegel