Albert A. Michelson Quotes
Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.
Albert A. Michelson
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There is something about the way that Greek poets, say Aeschylus, use metaphor that really attracts me. I don't think I can imitate it, but there's a density to it that I think I'm always trying to push towards in English.
Anne Carson
Of course it is very nice that she wants to help. But given that it does correspond to the law on aid during an election period, there is a question that must be checked as to whether this is the period.
Ehud Olmert
I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.
Marie Antoinette
Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.
Jimmy Page
Led Zeppelin
Everyone's got their own velocity, and there's no real time frame with comedy.
Sarah Silverman
Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.
Alexander Graham Bell
If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.
Bill Gates
Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.
Bill Gates
India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.
Bill Gates
It is to aid in making the arts operative rather than only positively or negatively pleasurable... it is to paint a record, in so far as I am increasingly capable, of man's deepst capacities... I seek to paint of how form manifests its subtlest quality named 'idea.
Morris Graves
Luckily, my limited attention span is well suited to the velocity of the news cycles. There's an assault of stories coming at you on even a slow-ish news day, but certain things just tend to stick out. Certain stories just seem to have an odd sort of electricity. It does get tricky when you're pitching an image that won't hit the newsstands for another week. Not only can other, bigger stories break in the mean time, but other daily cartoonists, can also come up with the same idea - this is the most depressing thing - and put it out there so yours looks old by the time it's published.
Barry Blitt
I'll worry about the pass routes, young man. You try and hold onto the ball a little more frequently.
Joe Gibbs
If I'm doing a concert, and I'm having a problem with the audience... I just play a Bob Marley song, and I'm good for the rest of the night.
Ziggy Marley
We should never hesitate to listen to a fool about life because life is pretty foolish as far as I can tell.
P. J. O'Rourke
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so it is taking you in the opposite direction. Whatever you do to be free from the self also is a self-centred activity.
U.G. Krishnamurti
I don't know about you, but where I went to school, Money Management 101 wasn't offered. Instead we learned about the War of 1812, which of course is something I use every single day.
T. Harv Eker
A writer doesn't really have much of a function on a movie set.
Tom Stoppard
India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.
Mahatma Gandhi
