Quotes About Density

#1. Whenever you look at light, basically it's just air. It has no tactileness to it. It's totally without density.

Robert Irwin

#2. Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

#3. 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

#4. I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.

Ellsworth Kelly

#5. The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city, Tokyo must be used more efficiently and the population density increased.

Minoru Mori

#6. Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.

Jan Gehl

#7. CpG islands, they're very high, density of guanine and

Kent Heckenlively

#8. Even climate action at home looks suspiciously like socialism to them; all the calls for high-density affordable housing and brand-new public transit are obviously just ways to give backdoor subsidies to the undeserving poor.

Naomi Klein

#9. Nature protects us in our uttermost losses by a density through which conviction is slow to penetrate.

Mary Catherwood

#10. I know that New York City remains the highest density urban area in the country and by far dedicates more of its own funds to fighting terrorism than any other municipality.

Jose Serrano

#11. I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.

Canibus

#12. The density of people in society is so thick that we forget that life will end one day. And we don't know when that one-day will be. So please, tell the people you love and care for that they are special and important. Tell them, before it is too late.

Paula Fox

#13. The first problem of living is to minimize friction with the crowds that surround you on all sides.

Isaac Asimov

#14. The density of settlement of economists over the whole empire of economic science is very uneven, with a few areas of modest size holding the bulk of the population.

Herbert A. Simon

#15. 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

#16. We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero volume, which means that the density is infinitely large, which means we have no way of describing, really, what a black hole is!

Andrea M. Ghez

#17. Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

Jane Jacobs

#18. support added density. In spite of those challenges, TDR zoning can work. For example, in Montgomery County, adjacent to Washington D.C., TDR zoning has protected 40,000 acres in 20 years, achieving half the area's farmland preservation

Peter Ladner

#19. The Mong Kok area in China holds the record for most crowded area, with an estimated population density of 130,000 people per square kilometer.

Luke Reiner

#20. There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#21. The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.

Barbara Kingsolver

#22. We designed a number of features from the ground up, like custom display and optics technology with very high refresh rates and pixel density. We added integrated 3-D audio, a built-in microphone so you can speak to friends inside virtual worlds, and precise mechanical adjustment systems.

Brendan Iribe

#23. To achieve this density of a neutron star at home, just cram a herd of 50 million elephants into the volume of a thimble.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#24. My workouts include aerobic exercise for a healthy cardiovascular system; strength training to maintain muscle tone and bone density; core strength exercise for a stable mid-section; and stretching to maintain mobility.

Samantha Stosur

#25. people who use multiple devices simultaneously have lower gray-matter density in an area of the brain associated with cognitive and emotional control. With

Gary Hennerberg

#26. First, it led to overconsumption, because of what he called the deception of the appetite-control apparatus by the density of the carbohydrates.

Gary Taubes

#27. I have painted and drawn bulls for some time because of their density and all the symbolism they carry.

Paul Emsley

#28. Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.

Peter Diamandis

#29. We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.

John D. Barrow

#30. The body responds to a calorie deficit by slowing down the metabolism and burning muscle tissue. That leads to weakness, sluggishness, slow times. In girls, it can also result in cessation of menstrual periods, which in turn leads to loss of bone density and frequent stress fractures.

Don Kardong

#31. I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.

Maureen Howard

#32. theoretician, his reputation secured in probability-density functions

Michael Crichton

#33. I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

John L. Phillips

#34. Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.

Ann Richards

#35. A short story can be packed with meaning and impact, with the concentrated density of a collapsed star, but should preferably also have a kind of elegant simplicity.

Jeffrey Thomas

#36. The degree of consciousness corresponds to the degree of density or the speed of vibrations. The denser the matter, the less conscious it is.

G.I. Gurdjieff

#37. The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.

Arthur C. Clarke

#38. Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago.

*Typo: "destiny" should read "density.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#39. Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction ... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Evan Parker

#40. Sashimi is velvet dust, verging on silk, or a bit of both, and the extraordinary alchemy of its gossamer essence allows it to preserve a milky density unknown even by clouds ... my cheeks recalled the effects of its profound caress.

Muriel Barbery

#41. I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

Emily Carr

#42. My superhero name should be Density Girl.

Gini Koch

#43. Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.

Anthony Albanese

#44. Studies have shown that vibrations of 25 hertz applied to extremities promote wound healing, and increase bone density and muscle mass. They also help with pain relief. The cat's purr is 25 hertz (25 cycles per second).

Pam Johnson-Bennett

#45. Your future health can be predicted by the nutrient density of your diet.

Joel Fuhrman

#46. The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

Jay Leno

#47. Mathematics cannot handle physical quantities like density that literally go to infinity.

Gregory Benford

#48. When the mind loses its density, you become translucent, like the flower. Spirit - the formless - shines through you into the world.

Eckhart Tolle

#49. I am haunted by the density of reality

Oliver Sacks

#50. In some markets, we don't have a lot of room to expand. We've done studies of store density and essentially found our more dense markets have more than one store per 15,000 people.

Fred DeLuca

#51. One cannot pass by without thinking of the density of men in the ground.

David Mitchell

#52. Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

Eric Hoffer

#53. The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

Isaac Newton

#54. In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical density for which the total energy of the universe was exactly zero at the beginning.

Victor J. Stenger

#55. Density, matter, radiation ... it's all just construction paper and pipe cleaners and glue, with the proper perspective.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#56. I'm trying to do something that is real. What I mean is this; my sense of being in the world starts with a physical relationship with my surroundings, their weight, texture, density, transparency, and so forth ...

Andrew Forge

#57. A great sea fog is not homogenous
its density varies: it is honeycombed with streets, it has its caves of clear air, its cliffs of solid vapour, all shifting and changing place with the subtlety of legerdemain.

Henry De Vere Stacpoole

#58. The film that really struck me was Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. That was a film I watched many, many times and found endlessly fascinating in it's density. I think the density of that film is primarily visual density, atmospheric, sound density, moreso than narrative density.

Christopher Nolan

#59. General relativity predicts that time ends inside black holes because the gravitational collapse squeezes matter to infinite density.

Lee Smolin

#60. Third is Omega, the relative density of the universe. If Omega were too small, then the universe would have expanded and cooled too fast.

Michio Kaku

#61. Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible ... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.

Edward Said

#62. The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

Jacques Maritain

#63. But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.

Sally Field

#64. There are problems humans cannot solve, to wit: density dependent birth rates, loss of genetic diversity, the overturning of his population pyramid, traveling to the nearest star, and the extinction of Man.

Bill Gaede

#65. Your head is a stereo input. The density and cartilage of your ears embed certain extra characteristics into stereo sound sources. Your brain decodes that and gives you sound plus conscious directions.

Chris Milk

#66. Not just the industrial farming but the sprawl, the sprawl, the sprawl. Low-density development is the worst. And SUVs everywhere, snowmobiles everywhere, Jet Skis everywhere, ATVs everywhere, two-acre lawns everywhere. The goddamned green monospecific chemical-drenched lawns.

Jonathan Franzen

#67. I think the deeper we go, the less likelihood we'll have of being recognised as something unwanted. It's like the human body - the greatest density of pain receptors lies in the skin.

Alastair Reynolds

#68. Sacraments. I pray to gather density to survive and

Matthew Kelly

#69. Research has found that loss of bone density may be an even better predictor of death from atherosclerotic disease than cholesterol levels.

Atul Gawande

#70. You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

Gore Vidal

#71. I hope that any expansion of London will learn from the planning examples of some of its most desirable areas such as Chelsea, Notting Hill, Belgravia and Mayfair. All are characterised by high density and a generosity of green spaces.

Norman Foster

#72. The drive to make everything lightweight is depriving us of the the deep reassurance of heft.

Michael Foley

#73. People do really well on space missions, but it's the physiological, the medical stuff, the stuff like radiation, loss of bone mass and muscle mass and density. It's those things that we need to figure out.

Scott Kelly

#74. A ten-times increase in the weight-oriented density of batteries would enable so many other moonshots, if we can find a great idea. We just haven't found one yet.

Astro Teller

#75. But if the words struck her only lightly when she was nine, they stayed with her, gaining in density, to insinuate themselves whenever her performance fell short of perfection. They were less a mortification, she feared, than an actual statement of fact: B+ is all you deserve.

Lynne Sharon Schwartz

#76. During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering secret meditation techniques.

Frederick Lenz

#77. According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here.

Seth Lloyd

#78. High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary calcium loss, leading to calcium loss from bone and therefore decreased bone density.

Joel Fuhrman

#79. Winds are produced by differences of air temperature, and hence density, between two regions of earth.

Evangelista Torricelli

#80. I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.

Ben Okri

#81. In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#82. In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.

P. J. O'Rourke

#83. We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.

Mathis Wackernagel

#84. 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

#85. The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That's bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.

Sam Kean

#86. A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense ...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#87. Carbohydrate density is simple to calculate
just divide the quantity of carbohydrate in food by the weight of the food. The more carbs packed into a given gram of food, the higher its carbohydrate density.

Andrew Weil

#88. Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

Sunni Brown

#89. I've never thought that it made sense to put something out that I didn't actually find really fun to read. Or, if not "fun," engaging. My tastes are whatever they are, but I may be a little bit afraid of certain kinds of density. I may get turned off by certain kinds of show-offyness.

Lorin Stein

#90. It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Louise Bogan

#91. The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be the highest form of research, I applied myself vigorously to its solution.

Max Planck

#92. I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.

Nicholson Baker

#93. Love, like everything else, exists in a spectrum. Love of another, love of the world, love of God, all these loves are really one love in different degrees of light and density.

Roger Housden

#94. As a rule of thumb, the hermaphrodite lifestyle works well if the prospects of finding a mate are slim, for example in low-density or immobile populations (explaining why many plants are hermaphrodites), while separate sexes develop in species with higher population densities or greater mobility.

Nick Lane

#95. The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.

Mark Bradford

#96. It was not so much a modification of the darkness, as a sigh of relief, a slight relaxing of tension, so that one felt, rather than saw, that the night had suddenly lost a shade of its density ... ah! yes; there! between these two shoulders of the hills she is bleeding to death.

Hope Mirrlees

#97. She leaned her head to one side of the pillow to meet her son's eyes. "Never give into them," she whispered. "No matter what they do or how important you feel it is to get their acceptance. Never kill part of yourself for them. Because other people will notice that part is missing before you do.

Christopher Rice

#98. Carpooling is important for urban density, air pollution and other reasons, but carpooling is not the kind of thing that actually changes the energy equation.

Clay Shirky

#99. The means of choice:
She might choose to ascend
The falling dream,
By some angelic power without a name
Reverse the motion, plunge into upwardness,
Know height without an end,
Density melt to air, silence yield a voice
Within her fall she felt the pull of Grace.

May Sarton

#100. It was nothing but a hole, a mouth open wide. You could lean over the edge and peer down to see nothing. All I knew about the well was its frightening depth. It was deep beyond measuring, and crammed full of darkness, as if all the world's darkness had been boiled down to their ultimate density.

Haruki Murakami