Quotes About Wavelength

#1. The electron can no longer be conceived as a single, small granule of electricity; it must be associated with a wave, and this wave is no myth; its wavelength can be measured and its interferences predicted.

Louis De Broglie

#2. Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

Derek Jarman

#3. During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.

Gabriel Lippmann

#4. How come I can't make her happy, how come she can't make me happy? Simple: the atomic reaction you expect isn't taking place, the beam with which you are bombarding the particles is on the wrong wavelength.

Julian Barnes

#5. WorldView-3 goes into the mid-infrared wavelength, allowing you to see very subtle geological differences on the sites at a 0.4-metre resolution.

Sarah Parcak

#6. 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

#7. For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

Max Von Laue

#8. The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.

Woody Hayes

#9. Then real life intervenes, your psychic tuning is knocked off of the wavelength, and yearning becomes the state of your life until the next time.

Penny Billington

#10. The brain is a harmonic instrument.
It vibrates to the same wavelength.

Toba Beta

#11. Nobody named Cheerful Charley is tuned in on my wavelength

Philip K. Dick

#12. I taught myself to tune in to another person's wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them.

Wolfman Jack

#13. I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#14. Why did this keep happening? Why her? Perhaps there was some pheromone certain people omitted, perceivable only on a wavelength unique to those individuals who preyed on them.

Nenia Campbell

#15. Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Iris Murdoch

#16. Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

Johannes Stark

#17. The way everyone pretends to be on the same wavelength without questioning or talking about things - it doesn't get anyone anywhere.

Haruki Murakami

#18. A lot of men are very possessive and they want to control you. But as you grow older, you attract people who are on your wavelength and who understand who you are.

Marisa Berenson

#19. When I stepped away from the white pine, I had the definite feeling that we had exchanged some form of life energy ... Clearly white pines and I are on the same wavelength. What I give back to the trees I cannot imagine. I hope they receive something, because trees are among my closest friends.

Anne LaBastille

#20. She was attractive, but so was everyone in this kind of light; the longer the wavelength, the softer the focus. There's a reason fuckcubbies don't come with fluorescent lights.

Peter Watts

#21. Candle is an X-ray, it's a matter of wavelength.

Craig Clevenger

#22. There's a wavelength, and they're on it.

Stephen King

#23. While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

#24. Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

Akiva Goldsman

#25. In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays.

Claude Nicollier

#26. ..."Not if I remember to take my pills," he said, as a tangible wave of longing hit him, lust and loneliness riding in on the wavelength of amphetamine.

William Gibson

#27. We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her.

Haruki Murakami

#28. She couldn't be on his wavelength all the time. That's all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship.

Stephen King

#29. When you turn up for work, especially with looking down the barrel of a show, you're hoping the person you're acting opposite of is going to be on your kind of crazy wavelength.

Raza Jaffrey

#30. Now I wanted to show you such a beach
Would set inside your head another jewel,
And lift you like the gentlest electric shock
Into an altogether other England--
An Avalon for which I had the wavelength,
Deep inside my head a little crystal.

Ted Hughes

#31. The diagnosis of high-frequency deafness cast a faint shadow over his happiness, but their mutual enjoyment of sex was not much affected, the sounds which accompany it being mostly non-verbal and low frequency in wavelength. Inevitably,

David Lodge

#32. However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function. Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is made on one of them, collapsing their common wavelength function.

Jim Al-Khalili

#33. Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

Geddy Lee

#34. The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest and the best. They were content with what they had; they didn't want to be bothered with more risks and more demands.

Ray Kroc

#35. For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.

Louis De Broglie

#36. Unfortunately I'm not on the same wavelength as Maria yet in the literary sphere. She writes me such good, natural letters, but she reads ... Rilke, Bergengruen, Binding, Wiechert; I regard the last three as being below our level and the first as being decidedly unhealthy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#37. They are in contact on a high-voltage wavelength of hate ...

Ken Kesey

#38. Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. Codes, substitutions, the secret names of things. The glorious inrush of a word. The joy of chatter. Every color's wavelength, by number.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#39. Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.

Christmas Humphreys

#40. Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

Thomas Pynchon

#41. My 'people skills' are 'rusty.' Pardon me but I have spent the last year as a multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent.

Castiel

#42. We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

Alfred Kastler

#43. It takes a traveler, not a tourist, to search for something deeper. Travelers want to find the wavelength on which they and the city connect.

David Levithan

#44. If you are the type of person who thinks too much about stuff then there is nothing lonelier in the world than being surrounded by a load of people on a different wavelength.

Matt Haig

#45. And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

Russell Hoban

#46. Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here' ... the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

Van Morrison

#47. What is the mass of a feeling? What is its wavelength, its position on the electromagnetic spectrum?

Paul McAuley

#48. What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

Vanna Bonta

#49. The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength

Steven Magee

#50. Keep braiding one's wavelengths back into oneself. That way they gain all the more external power and surround us with a huge affective and protective zone. Don't talk about this. Never talk about our secret methods. If we talk about them, they stop working.

Jean Cocteau

#51. I am so happy to be communicating with people on this newest of new wavelengths which to some older people must seem like a kind of magic.

Doris Lessing

#52. The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

Olaf Stapledon

#53. Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are lost when it comes to visitors. They are shy, defensive, curious places; places that do not know how they are supposed to behave.

Pico Iyer

#54. When the first "let there be light" spoken, the entire electromagnetic spectrum is emitted.

Toba Beta