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“It was common to be exposed to smashed mercury filled spectral calibration lamps in astronomy.”

Common Filled Astronomy Osha Exposed Lamps Mercury Calibration Spectral Smashed

Author:Steven Magee

“Wavelength calibration lamps containing mercury and other elements were in use in astronomy.”

Elements Astronomy Lamps Mercury Containing Columbia Other Wavelength Dartmouth Calibration

Author:Steven Magee

“Due north’ on my compass is largely ‘due’ to the fact that in ‘due’ time I have been ‘unduly’ lax in recalibrating my compass. And I’m apparently ignorant enough to wonder why I’m lost.”

Lost Goal Journey Stupid Ignorance Fool Goals Foolish Ignorant Wander Destination Foolishness Compass Direction Misled Wandering Map Misdirected Calibration

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“life is full of calibration”

Life Change Calibration

Author:Aditia Rinaldi

“But I never looked like that!’ - How do you know? What is the ‘you’ you might or might not look like? Where do you find it - by which morphological or expressive calibration? Where is your authentic body? You are the only one who can never see yourself except as an image; you never see your eyes unless they are dulled by the gaze they rest upon the mirror or the lens (I am interested in seeing my eyes only when they look at you): even and especially for your own body, you are condemned to the repertoire of its images.”

Knows Looks Body Might Eye Seeing Mirrors Do You Know Lenses Expressive Calibration

Book:Roland Barthes

Source: Roland Barthes

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”

People Heart Enough Fear Hurt Regret Caught Humiliated Being Hurt Calibration

Book:Letters of Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“The effect on human consciousness of the experience of the Presence of God is subjectively transformative and identical throughout human history. It leaves a timeless mark that is verifiable as a calibration of a recorded level of conciousness.”

Humans Levels Consciousness Effects Mark Historical Timeless Human History Identical Presence Of God Human Consciousness Calibration

Author:David Hawkins

“Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.”

Source: Finding a Form: Essays

“Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.”

Needs Wells Whole Space Example Branches Leap Exquisite Measurement Precision Obsessive Decimals Calibration

Author:Jay Griffiths

“Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must practise.”

Found Individual Social Grace Bounds Clock Collectives Timing Endeavour Practise Social Graces Calibration

Author:Jay Griffiths