Quotes of: String-theory Keyword

The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.

Sirena Huang

Afghan Girl Ice blue eyes that look to the morning sky as I knit the pieces and remnants of my life. I have No books, no paper, no pencils, and no black boards. I look at the holes in my life as I see the hills of the Appalachians that echo. I think ...

Carpe Diem

Details that could throw doubt on your interpretation must be given, if you know them. You must do the best you can—if you know anything at all wrong, or possibly wrong—to explain it. If you make a theory, for example, and advertise it, or put it...

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character

If someone were to propose that the planets go around the sun because all planet matter has a kind of tendency for movement, a kind of motility, let us call it an ‘oomph,’ this theory could explain a number of other phenomena as well. So this is ...

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

A kite can't really fly free,that's just an expression. In order to soar high in the sky the string of a kite needs to be anchored. If the string breaks the kite drops back to the ground. The kite's freedom depends on it not being as free as he think...

I'm Coming to Take You to Lunch: A Fantastic Tale of Boys, Booze and How Wham! Were Sold to China

You do not esteem good deeds?" She shifted the basket handle to both hands, just as a cool breeze blew a bonnet string across her face. "My dear Miss Keene, what would the world be without them?" He brushed the string from her cheek. "Are we not admo...

The Silent Governess

That's how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make ideas. The words, however, can say anything that the language permits, which, in our case, is quite a lot, so a string of words ...

Less Than Words Can Say

I felt a pang -- a strange and inexplicable pang that I had never felt before. It was homesickness. Now, even more than I had earlier when I'd first glimpsed it, I longed to be transported into that quiet little landscape, to walk up the path, to tak...

The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag

If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays ...

Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life

I rummaged through the drawers in search of a strong poison. I thought of nothing as I looked; I had to get it over with as quickly as possible. It was as if it were an everyday task I needed to do. All I could find were things of no use to me: butto...

Max Blecher

Mr. Banks: [singing] With tuppence for paper and strings, you can have your own set of wings! With your feet on the ground you're a bird in flight, with your fist holding tight to the string of your kite! Oh, oh, oh, let's go fly a kite, up to the hi...

Mary Poppins

I have emotional strings that tie me to Europe.

Jacqueline Bisset

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957.

Roger McGuinn

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Eight Theories of Religion

This is not a universe that is advancing toward a goal; it is one that is caught in the grip of an unbreakable pattern.

From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time

There will be no mass-based feminist movement as long as feminist ideas are understood only by a well-educated few.

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center

The oldest theory of art belongs to the Greeks, who regarded art as an imitation (mimesis) of reality. The strength of that theory is that it explains the way in which art takes its materials from real life.

Leland Ryken

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

The Theory of Clouds