Quotes About Constants

#1. The two great constants of life. Food and death.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. So basically you're sticking around to watch us all fuck up ?"
"Yes. It's one of life's few guaranteed constants.

Iain M. Banks

#3. Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent.

Nick Flynn

#4. Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.

Ian Stewart

#5. If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn't exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be 'just right.'

Seth Shostak

#6. They're constants, aren't they?" ... "Books are. That's why we like them so much. They seem immutable. They're not, of course. Not from the author's first draft to the tenth printing, but they seem like it.

C.E. Murphy

#7. There is something so mysterious that it is almost like God. God is in the equations. God is in the fundamental constants. And that's fine. I mean, that's just redefinition of that which we find mysterious at the basis of the universe.

Richard Dawkins

#8. Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.

Karl Ferdinand Braun

#9. I'd just always assumed those constants, so basic, would never change. I hadn't even realized they were anything special at the time. And now I would have given anything to be back there again. - Amy

Morgan Matson

#10. I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself. And the story should always be a story worth telling.

Cillian Murphy

#11. I primarily live in New York City, a place that is about constants, not letting up and not stopping.

Waris Ahluwalia

#12. The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there are very few constants in the show, so the 'Doctor'- when you're there, you're in it a lot. You're speaking a lot.

David Tennant

#13. My love of creativity is one of my constants, a pole star amid the many constellations of possibilities and personalities that make up all the people I could be.

Claudia Gray

#14. As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

Alan Watts

#15. Many of the fundamental physical constants-which as far as one could see, God could have given any value He liked-are in fact very precised adjusted, or fine-tuned, to produce the only kind of Universe that makes our existence possible.

Arthur C. Clarke

#16. The aim of Mathematical Physics is not only to facilitate for the physicist the numerical calculation of certain constants or the integration of certain differential equations. It is besides, it is above all, to reveal to him the hidden harmony of things in making him see them in a new way.

Henri Poincare

#17. Old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

Dorothy Gilman

#18. Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.

Dermot Davis

#19. I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.

S. Robson Walton

#20. It seemed as though the main framework had been put together once and for all, and that little remained to be done but to measure physical constants to the increased accuracy represented by another decimal point.

William Cecil Dampier

#21. The fine structure constant is undoubtedly the most fundamental pure (dimensionless) number in all of physics. It relates the basic constants of electromagnetism (the charge of the electron), relativity (the speed of light), and quantum mechanics (Planck's constant).

David J. Griffiths

#22. The uncertainty of life got me thinking about the importance of constants in our lives.

Michele Scott

#23. In the course of my stay there, I also showed how one could analyse the experimental kinetic curves for the reaction of haemoglobin with carbon dioxide or oxygen by simulations in the computer, and so fit the rate constants.

Aaron Klug

#24. Very soon I discovered that if one gets a feeling for no more than a dozen other radiation and nuclear constants, one can imagine the subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, before calculating more precise relationships.

Stanislaw Ulam

#25. Old Noel Constant had never known anything about business, and neither had his son - and what little charm the Constants had evaporated the instant they pretended that their successes depended on their knowing their elbows from third base.

Kurt Vonnegut

#26. The only work really worth doing - the only work you can do convincingly - is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.

David Bayles

#27. The constants that I look for are a love of light and a determination to trace some moral chain of being.

John Cheever

#28. Martin Rees, in Just Six Numbers, lists six fundamental constants, which are believed to hold all around the universe.

Richard Dawkins

#29. The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

Robert Anton Wilson

#30. Embarrassing ourselves in front of strangers is literally one of the worst things that can happen to us. It's in the slot where polio used to be. Awkwardness, rejection, missing out. We've conquered everything else and these constants of human life are all that remain to bedevil us.

Alexandra Petri

#31. We are confident that through discussing with Arab and Islamic states, as well as with the League of Arab States, we will be able to reach a common vision towards maintaining the constants of our people and deal with reality.

Khaled Mashal

#32. One of the great constants in life is change.

Heracleitus

#33. In fact, if one considers the possible constants and laws that could have emerged, the odds against a universe that produced life like ours are immense.

Stephen Hawking

#34. It was one of the constants of life. You are born, you die, you stand up when the bus doors open.

Jennifer Brown

#35. We have found that the values of the constants of nature have not been fine-tuned for life by accident, but that these values are constrained by and logically follow from the fundamental space-time organization of the Cosmic Tree of Life.

Carl Johan Calleman

#36. Universal coding for computers is sought that uses relative addresses and a pseudocode and that assembles and translates, printing out a directory of final addresses of key commands, variables, and constants.

Saul Gorn

#37. My only two constants are to challenge myself and to try not to repeat myself.

Cillian Murphy

#38. I realize that you are probably still angry. That is pleasant to know. Much as your perpetual health, I have come to rely upon your dissatisfaction with me. It is one of the cosmere's great constants, I should think.

Brandon Sanderson

#39. Music and God are my constants.
-Aubrey H

Rachel Fershleiser

#40. War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.

Will Durant

#41. In a few years, all great physical constants will have been approximately estimated, and that the only occupation which will be left to men of science will be to carry these measurements to another place of decimals.

James C. Maxwell

#42. Numbers, furthermore as archetypal structural constants of the collective unconscious, possess a dynamic, active aspect which is especially important to keep in mind. It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness that is essential.

Marie-Louise Von Franz

#43. Physicists love this number not just because it is dimensionless, but also because it is a combination of three fundamental constants of nature. Why do these constants come together to make the particular number 1/137.036 and not some other number?

John Archibald Wheeler

#44. I always thought I'd go to university and then get a real job, you know. Now I want to do stuff that really makes me happy. Although I'm still trying to work out what that is. But for me there are always constants.

Martin Henderson

#45. If anything runs deeper than a mathematician's love of variables, it's a scientist's love of constants.

Sam Kean

#46. Adjustment of constants to make everything fit - that I couldn't be sure it was very useful. I wanted a rather deeper understanding

Richard Feynman

#47. Coffee is one of the few constants in my life," I explained. "No matter where I go, no matter how crappy a day I'm having, no matter what kind of mood I'm in, coffee is always there to make me feel a little better.

Elliott James

#48. Going back to California is not like going back to Vermont, or Chicago; Vermont and Chicago are relative constants, against which one measures one's own change. All that is constant about the California of my childhood is the rate at which it disappears.

Joan Didion

#49. Constants are widely known for the detestable practice of changing their values; we should prepare ourselves against the consequences of such fickleness

Bertrand Meyer

#50. Too many constants were changing, belying the illusion of permanence.

Raymond L. Atkins

#51. In general, exchange reactions for the lighter isotopes have equilibrium constants sufficiently different from unity, so that the ratios of concentrations of the isotopes in two compounds which are in equilibrium differ by a few per cents in nearly all cases.

Harold Urey

#52. Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.

Conor Oberst

#53. There are three constants in life ... change, choice and principles.

Stephen Covey

#54. Duels, murder, and feuding were constants in the Highlands, as was "scorning," or taking food and shelter by force from tenants of other clans when a feud was under way.

Arthur Herman

#55. The principles are exactly the same as those of QED: everything is built out of propagators, vertex diagrams, and coupling constants. But there are new actors and whole new plot lines, including one called QCD.

Leonard Susskind

#56. There are three constants in existence... change with almost everything,choice and principles.

Krystal Volney

#57. Fine Structure Constant: Fundamental numerical constant of atomic physics and quantum electrodynamics, defined as the square of the charge of the electron divided by the product of Planck's constant and the speed of light.

Steven Weinberg

#58. ... it should be remembered that the atomicity of electric charge has already found its expression in the specific numerical value of the fine structure constant, a theoretical understanding of which is still missing today.

Wolfgang Pauli

#59. There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions, ...

Roger Penrose

#60. When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world.

Dan Brown

#61. The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.

Richard Heath