Best Plasticity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Humans are characterised by developmental plasticity, an adaptation that allows for survival in geographically or temporally variable ecological conditions, but survival at one age may at a cost to health at later ages.”

Pain Suffering Evolution Adaptation Homo Sapiens Plasticity

Book:Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

Source: Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“We are nearing the end of this phase of the #tech boom. The next phase is starting - heterogeneous compute, infrastructure plasticity, etc. and that doesn't even include quantum. Tom Golway 2022”

Infrastructure Metaverse Plasticity Quantum Computing Heterogeneous Compute

Book:Edge to Cloud

Source: Edge to Cloud

“Beyond Serverless is Infrastructure Plasticity where the underlying physical infrastructure is enriched and presented to the application as a Metaverse that is fully optimized to support the application’s service requirements,”

Infrastructure Metaverse Plasticity

Book:Edge to Cloud

Source: Edge to Cloud

“You can believe your life into any state you want, he decided. Reality is plastic. You mold it. You pretend things into existence.”

Life Reality Belief Existence Pretending Manifesting Plasticity

Book:Night Side of the River

Source: Night Side of the River

“Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.”

Eye Lines Objects Perspective Proportion Centre Outlines Plasticity

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.”

Needs Self Cities Special Serious Unique Privacy Traffic Citizenship Imaginative Utopia Ecological Assessment Programmes Ingenious Special Relationship Plasticity Privacy And Freedom

Book:Soft City: Picador Classic

Source: Soft City: Picador Classic

“The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity to the drawing if the eye in the light is darker than the one in the shadow. It gives the head vividness.”

Ifs Giving Doe Light Eye Artist Shadow Add Drawing Portraiture Vividness Plasticity

Author:John French Sloan

“I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity.”

Painting Wall Ancient Melancholy Elegant Plasticity

Author:William Baziotes

“The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all men, of being diversely moulded by the impact of fresh forms of thought.”

Men May Book Form Values Quality All Things Impact Plasticity

Book:Summer

Source: Summer

“I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.”

Form Cartoon Plasticity

Author:Roz Chast

“No plasticity exists in the Quran. This book is believed by Muslims to be the verbatim words of God. How can you change the word of God? Other religions are living. They are changing and evolving. Islam is fossilized. It allows no change. It can't be reformed.”

Book Islam Evolve Word Of God Quran Plasticity

Author:Ali Sina

“The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.”

People Together Young Brain Power Of Music Plasticity

Author:Oliver Sacks

“Plasticity, then, in the wide sense of the word, means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits.”

May Mean Enough Science Strong Influence Habit Weak Structure Possession Wide Yield Stable Phases Strong Enough Equilibrium Nomenclature Plasticity

Book:The Principles of Psychology

Source: The Principles of Psychology

“The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.”

May Home Seems Lasts Building Simplicity Coming Home Continuity Plasticity

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.”

Age Form Ability Brain Quality Old Age Flexible Fluid Pathways New Experiences Adaptable Plasticity

Author:Deepak Chopra

“Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions of its own genome and thus adapt to environmental pressures, physiologic changes, and experiences.”

Humans Brain Evolution Pressure Property Environmental Invention Nervous Restriction Human Brain Nervous System Genome Plasticity

Author:Philippa Perry

“We're filling a big universe [in Doctor Strange], and so the look and the sort of plasticity of us is really important to us when we're striking poses here. It's very important, it's really great.”

Looks Important Bigs Universe Strange Doctors Really Great Filling Plasticity

Author:Tilda Swinton

“There is a neuron in your brain that will respond only to pictures of Jennifer Aniston - provided you have had prior visual exposure to the actress. That neuron does not respond to pictures of Bill Clinton or Halle Berry. Only Jennifer. I used the story to explain the almost ridiculous plasticity of the organ. There is no such thing as Jennifer Aniston in our evolutionary history - she was born in 1969, for heaven's sake - but we are flexible enough to devote an entire cell to her if we have previously encountered her in some fashion.”

Ifs Doe Enough Stories Used Heaven Born Brain Fashion Bills Clinton Sake Actresses Ridiculous Cells Visuals Organs Flexible Exposure Berries Jennifer Neurons Plasticity

Author:John Medina

“I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.”

Love Years Found Products No Love Plasticity

Author:Frank Zappa

“Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.”

Men Mind Doe Art Expression Unique Marvelous Art And Science Plasticity

Author:Jacob Bronowski

“Evolutionary plasticity can be purchased only at the ruthlessly dear price of continuously sacrificing some individuals to death from unfavourable mutations. Bemoaning this imperfection of nature has, however, no place in a scientific treatment of this subject.”

Science Individual Sacrifice Subjects Evolution Dear Treatment Imperfection Mutation Plasticity

Author:Theodosius Dobzhansky

“After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.”

Wells Art Form Artist Certain Levels Skills Scientist Aesthetics High Level Art And Science Great Science Technical Skills Plasticity Art And Technology

Author:Albert Einstein

“Ironically, some of our most stubborn habits and disorders are products of our plasticity.”

Products Habit Disorder Stubborn Plasticity

Book:The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

Source: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

“It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.”

Individuality Nervous Units Nervous System Plasticity

Author:Eric Kandel

“The beauty of a language is, generally judged by its soft or rigid, melodious or harsh, ring. Other aspects, such as the flexibility of derivation, play hardly any role in grading. Were it the case, Russian would certainly be placed on the winner’s stand. It would rank first in plasticity.”

Firsts Play Language Roles Cases Aspect Rings Winner Judged Harsh Flexibility Plasticity

Author:Kató Lomb

“The viewer who sees only a study in the picture of the glass jug illuminated from behind fails to appreciate the masterly composition, the noble purity of the lines, the rich plasticity of the form and consequently also the poetry and beauty of the picture, and still more important, its specifically photographic qualities.”

Stills Important Form Lines Behinds Quality Study Rich Failing Appreciate Glasses Noble Purity Composition Viewers Jugs Plasticity

Author:Alexander Rodchenko

“The greatest scientists are artists as well.”

Wells Artist Scientist Art And Science Plasticity

Book:The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

Source: The Ultimate Quotable Einstein

“Neurons that fire together wire together.”

Together Fire Wire Neurons Neuroplasticity Plasticity

Author:Donald O. Hebb

“The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.”

Reason Liberty Security Military Dangerous Healthy Concepts Argument Importance Civil Rights Temptation Justify Broads Skepticism Civil Liberties Invoke Encroachment Plasticity

Author:William J. Brennan

“Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.”

Men Mind Home Manners Mould Sluggish Bad Manners Plasticity

Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana

Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana