Oscillator Quotes

#1. I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and I would get down to a few millimetres in wavelength, but I wanted to get shorter wavelengths; I wanted to get into the infra-red because I saw there was a lot more to be done there.

Charles H. Townes

#2. R. V. L. Hartley, the inventor of the Hartley oscillator, was thinking philosophically about the transmission of information at about this time, and he summarized his reflections in a paper, "Transmission of Information," which he published in 1928.

John Robinson Pierce

#3. The career of a young theoretical physicist consists of treating the harmonic oscillator in ever-increasing levels of abstraction.

Sidney Coleman

#4. Your folks are like God because you want to know they're out there and you want them to approve of your life, still you only call them when you're in crisis and need something.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. Magic is the art and science of forcing things to behave in ways that are not in their nature.

Joe Abercrombie

#6. Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

H.G.Wells

#7. There's two of us and one of him. I'll hold him while you show him how it's going to be."
Yeah, that would win the girl. "This is why I never ask you for advice.

Pam Godwin

#8. Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.

Alastair Reynolds

#9. I remember things being more clearer, at one time things were more real.

Tom Petty