Rayleigh Quotes

#1. The truth is," I say, "he's having my baby. It's a medical miracle. Someone call the newspapers.

Laura Ruby

#2. He was as gorgeous on the outside as he was on the inside, and I'd stupidly given him up. Hopefully

Helena Hunting

#3. Earthquake - the earthquake of November 23, 1980, with its infinite destruction - entered into our bones. It expelled the habit of stability and solidity, the confidence that every second would be identical to the next, the familiarity of

Elena Ferrante

#4. Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea.

Nikola Tesla

#5. If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.

Philip Plait

#6. Discipline, it has been suggested, is the means of human spiritual evolution. This

M. Scott Peck

#7. Beauty is power and elegance, right action, form fitting function, intelligence, and reasonability. And very often expressed in curves.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#8. The fundamental importance of the subject of molecular diffraction came first to be recognized through the theoretical work of the late Lord Rayleigh on the blue light of the sky, which he showed to be the result of the scattering of sunlight by the gases of the atmosphere.

C. V. Raman

#9. The trouble is that all the investigators proceeded in exactly the same spirit, the spirit that is of scientific curiosity, and with no possibility of telling whether the issue of their work would prove them to be fiends, or dreamers, or angels.

Robert Strutt, 4th Baron Rayleigh

#10. It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

Eugenio Montale

#11. Since I had never been so sexually attracted to a woman before, I was suddenly compelled to examine her ears.

Graeme Simsion

#12. She had been searching for a way to justify her own choices. It was the first time I realized that we all bend and shape our stories to fit our own ends. It was certainly no the last.

Greer Macallister

#13. Matter moves, but Ether is strained.

Oliver Lodge

#14. All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

Patrick Lindsay

#15. There's too much of everything - too many bands, too many albums, too much information all the time. You're seeing fewer album releases treated as big events, because of the influx. It's almost a "here this week, forgotten next week" thing.

Matt Smith