Quotes About Quanta

#1. At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

Johannes Stark

#2. An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction.

Johannes Stark

#3. Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet.

Seth Lloyd

#4. The more one chases the quanta, the better they hide themselves.

Albert Einstein

#5. Any industrial product that comes in per capita quanta beyond a given intensity exercises a radical monopoly over the satisfaction of a need.

Ivan Illich

#6. By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world.

Johannes Stark

#7. Space is created by the interaction of individual quanta of gravity.

Carlo Rovelli

#8. The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.

Vanna Bonta

#9. The quanta of gravity, that is, are not in space; they are themselves space. The

Carlo Rovelli

#10. In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

Johannes Stark

#11. Dear Artificer, I've blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place!

Diane Duane

#12. The number of matter quanta in a given region or state is limited by the Exclusion Principle.

Rodney A. Brooks

#13. Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien ... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

Terence McKenna

#14. the particles are quanta of quantum fields; light is formed by quanta of a field; space is nothing more than a field, which is also made of quanta; and time emerges from the processes of this same field. In other words, the world is made entirely from quantum fields (

Carlo Rovelli

#15. Every cubic centimeter of space, and every second that passes, is the result of this dancing foam of extremely small quanta.

Carlo Rovelli

#16. I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta.

Albert Einstein

#17. Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular and the undular.

Werner Heisenberg

#18. All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me no closer to answer the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.

Albert Einstein

#19. For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and these can come in the form of electromagnetic waves only from accelerated electric quanta.

Johannes Stark

#20. Our bodies are the quanta and our minds are the qualia - together they form a physical entity capable of interaction with many forms in the universe.

Rajeev Kurapati

#21. Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.

James Purdy

#22. Everything we can dream can be real.

Pablo Picasso

#23. Working on 'Parks' was like heaven because everyone there was just intimidatingly intelligent and funny, and we would have these hilarious debates about really tangential things. It was inspiring because I felt really challenged to be my best.

Chelsea Peretti

#24. One kiss wouldn't be so bad, but
No. That was the problem right there. It would be a gateway kiss. Then there'd be tongue and heavy breathing and feelings. I needed to nip that right in the bud. Because after the kissing came all the dying.

Lola Dodge

#25. Feminists who accept the claim made in The Book of Genesis, and, that God is a he, need to make their minds up.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#26. In the apocalyptic environment that is Los Angeles on fire, we should all be making a point to have a lot of sex, but no one seems particularly motivated. They need leaders, and sadly I am not up for the task.

Jennifer Harrison

#27. Nerds always say they don't give a shit about popularity; but - not having friends sucks. I never liked quote unquote cool kids, personally - I thought they were all dumb little shits.

John Green

#28. I had no idea what to do with this unexpected life.

Robin Hobb

#29. Our choices in these next few moments could only change how we suffered.
Not if.
From everything I could see, that was already decided.

Lola Dodge

#30. You are who you are, when NO ONE is LOOKING

Weas

#31. I peek over the back of the couch and there she is, my goddess of death, her hair snaking out in a great black cloud, her teeth grinding hard enough to make living gums bleed.

Kendare Blake

#32. Don't stick that on me until we know for a fact that you have the same power Acheron does to keep cooties off that stuff

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#33. Each year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, two million Americans acquire an infection while they are in the hospital. Ninety thousand die of that infection. The

Atul Gawande

#34. Decency is when you put yourself before the needs of others, dignity lies in loyalty and humbleness; honor means honesty and openness, possess those and you will be most beautiful.

Bahman Solati

#35. When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Aristotle.

#36. Universe consists of frozen light.

David Bohm

#37. A lot of mistakes, but all of them in the past. Some made with worthy intentions, some without. When you live a long time you get to collect a lot of mistakes.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#38. Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

Carrie Fisher