T Quotes
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“The physicist who states a law of nature with the aid of a mathematical formula is abstracting a real feature of a real material world, even if he has to speak of numbers, vectors, tensors, state-functions, or whatever to make the abstraction.”
Source: Philosophical Papers: Volume 1, Mathematics, Matter and Method
“The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.”
“The physicist's problem is the problem of ultimate origins and ultimate natural laws. The biologist's problem is the problem of complexity.”
Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
“The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.”
“The physicists are getting down to the nitty-gritty, they've really just about pared things down to the ultimate details, and the last thing they ever expected to happen is happening. God is showing through.”
“The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God.”
Source: The God Particle: If the Universe is the Answer, what is the Question?
“The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
“The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.”
“The physics are simple in theory, but in practice they are filled with the possibility for limitless error.”
Source: Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst
“The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.”
“The physics of gravity was not reserved only for large celestial objects to efficiently exert.”
Source: Crocodile Chamber
“The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.”
“The physics of the 21st century shall deal essentially with non-spatial matter and non-spatial mechanics.”
“The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true.”
“The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.”
“The physics of vibration tends to emerge as perceptions of harmonics. Insights into the field optics have revealed that human eyes perceive only a window of light called the visible spectrum, we know that a broader range of light surrounds us at all times on this globe, sailing through the cosmos as we do so.”
Source: Mercy Ai: Age of Discovery
“The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.”
“The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dales or downs, and bespeaks a tomb-like stillness more emphatic than that of glades and pools. The contrast of what is with what might be, probably accounts for this.”
Source: The Woodlanders
“The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given substance is an invariable quantity-i.e., one independent of the circumstances accompanying the combustion-from which it is more specifically concluded that the chemical effect of the combustible materials undergoes no quantitative change even as a result of the vital process, or that the living organism, with all its mysteries and marvels, is not capable of generating heat out of nothing.”
“The physiological effects of an electrocution are severe and painful. Besides launching the body into violent convulsions, the electrocution of a human being causes massive destruction throughout the body.”
Source: Antonio's Will
“The physiological law of Transfer of Energy is the basis of human success and happiness. There is no action without expenditure of energy, and if energy be not expended the power to generate it is lost. This law shows itself in a thousand ways in the life of man. The arm which is not used becomes palsied. The wealth which comes by chance weakens and destroys. The good which is unused turns to evil. The charity which asks no effort cannot relieve the misery she creates.”
Source: The strength of being clean: the physiological laws governing the pursuit of happiness ; The philosophy of hope : understanding the process by which hope displaces despair : an owners manual to the human soul
“The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues; he no longer hears the cries of the animals, no longer sees the flowing blood, he sees only his idea: organisms that hide from him problems that he wants to discover. He doesn't feel that he is in a horrible carnage; under the influence of a scientific idea, he pursues with delight a nervous filament inside stinking and livid flesh that for any other person would be an object of disgust and horror.”
“The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.”
Source: Experimental psychology, and other essays
“The physiology of TMS begins in the brain. Here repressed emotions like anxiety and anger set in motion a process in which the autonomic nervous system causes a reduction in blood flow to certain muscles, nerves, tendons, or ligaments, resulting in pain and other kinds of dysfunction in these tissues. The autonomic nervous system is a subsystem of the brain that has the responsibility for controlling all of the body's involuntary functions. It determines how fast the heart beats, how much acid is secreted into the stomach for digestive purposes, how rapidly one breathes, and a host of other moment-to-moment physiologic processes that keep our bodies functioning optimally under everyday circumstances or in emergencies. The so-called fight or flight reaction that all animals share, particularly important in lower animals, is directed by the autonomic system. In order to meet the emergency, every organ and system in the body is properly prepared. For some systems it means total cessation of activity so that the body's resources can be mobilized to deal with the danger more effectively. Typically, most of the body's nutritive and excretory activities are shut down, the heart beats more rapidly, and blood is shunted away from less important functions so as to be available in larger quantities for systems that are crucial to escape or fight, like the muscles. The critical importance of the autonomic system of nerves is obvious. (page: 71)”
Source: Healing Back Pain
“The physique of a Messiah. But too clever to believe in God or be convinced of his own mission. And too sensitive, even if he were convinced, to carry it out. His muscles would like to act and his feelings would like to believe; but his nerve-endings and his cleverness won't allow it.”
“The Physitian owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little mony.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“The phytochemicals, antioxidants, and fiber- all of the healthful components of plant foods- originate in plants, not animals. If they are present, it is because the animal ate plants. And why should we go through an animal to get the benefits of the plants themselves? To consume unnecessary, unseemly, and unhealthy substances, such as saturated fat, animal protein, lactose, and dietary cholesterol, is to negate the benefits of the fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that are prevalent and inherent in plants.”
“The Pi Betas had accepted the fact that Rose was Mexican, but it was obvious they would just as soon ignore it. And they seemed to assume Rose wanted to do that, too. The other girls might not be overtly disturbed by the fact that Rose was a chicana, but they certainly were not going to encourage her to explore her heritage. No, if Rose joined the Pi Betas, she would have to deny the biggest part of herself. She would have to become completely American.”
Source: Rosa's Lie
“The piano ain't got no wrong notes.”
“The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.”
“The piano by its black and white keys always attracted me, my father showed me how to use... and slowly I got into playing.”
“The Piano ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.”
“The piano has been drinking, not me.”
“The piano has eighty-eight keys, and you have to be able to play all of them. And the range of white to black is analogous to the eighty-eight keys and you have to be able to play all eighty-eight keys in that palette from white to black.”
“The piano is a bit of a monster because it is this center of Western music and so much has been done with it and it is a fixed pitch instrument. It is a bit like trying to paint because there is the weight of all that has been done before.”
“The piano is a divinely inspired instrument, a mirror held up to its player's soul that captures the light and shadow of the performer and reflects them back to the listener.”
“The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth.”
“The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument.”
“The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.”
“The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own.”
“The piano is an orchestra with 88...... things, you know”
“The piano is just a different animal. It's expensive, it's big, it's heavy, and it doesn't fit in the mix easily. Everyone grew up with a piano in their living room, so rocking out on the piano was accessible - it wasn't an upper-class thing. Now pianos have become very much a piece of furniture.”
“The piano is kind of my second instrument.”
“The piano is like an orchestra - I'm very fortunate that I chose it as my instrument.”
“The piano is not firewood -- yet.”
“The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.”
“The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.”
Source: Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980
“The piano is the X factor. People have a tough time following the structures when there's no piano there, spelling it out. It makes it more easily understood, particularly to people who don't know as much about music.”
“The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.”
“The Piano Lesson' is very sophisticated, easily the most adult or complex material I've attempted. It's the first film I've written that has a proper story, and it was a big struggle for me to write. It meant I had to admit the power of narrative.”