Vapour Quotes

• The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.

  Pieter Zeeman

  Sodium, Rotation, Polarization

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• The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

  John Burroughs

  Fall, Science, Illustration

  John Burroughs (1895). “Fresh Fields”

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• Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

  J. A. Baker

  Doe, Pits, Destruction

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• The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, Ideas, Long

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3163, Manonmani Publishers

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• The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

  Lynne Truss

  Way, Punctuation, Reason

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, www.today.com. November 6, 2013.

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• Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.3, Springer Science & Business Media

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• As the moths around a taper,
  As the bees around a rose,
  As the gnats around a vapour,
  So the spirits group and close
  Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Drinking, Gnats, Rose

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1853). “Poems”, p.151

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• Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out to make the constellations, and the dewy vapours of her gown fell soft upon the land.

  Kit Williams

  Beautiful, Night, Hair

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory.

  William Shakespeare

  Earth, Cynicism, Important Hamlet

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

  Lord Byron

  Money, Gold, Credit

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• Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul, Tea, Doe

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell”, p.211

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• I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Jealousy, Toads

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3, l. 260

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• The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary currents of the winds, are intermixed, when saturated with vapour, a precipitation ensues. If the masses are under saturation, then less precipitation takes place, or none at all, according to the degree. Also, the warmer the air, the greater is the quantity of vapour precipitated in like circumstances. ... Hence the reason why rains are heavier in summer than in winter, and in warm countries than in cold.

  John Dalton

  Summer, Country, Rain

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• The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath, And after many summer dies the swan. Me only cruel immortality Consumes: I wither slowly in thine arms, Here at the quiet limit of the world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Summer, Death, Lying

  'Tithonus' (1860, revised 1864) l. 1

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• Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Humorous, Sarcasm, Doe

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories”, p.313, OUP Oxford

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• The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.

  Lynne Truss

  Arbitrary, Way, Punctuation

  "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.

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• The spirit-world around this world of sense
  Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere
  Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense
  A vital breath of more ethereal air.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Halloween, Kids, Air

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A New Complete Edition, Including Miles Standish and Other Poems”, p.628

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• There is some CO2-water vapor feedback. But it's not operating on a global scale. The modellers cannot accurately separate water vapour from the effects of clouds and rainfall.

  Willie Soon

  Clouds, Water, Vapor

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• So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Long, World, Perceive

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3163, Manonmani Publishers

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• It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.

  John Owen

  Distance, Heart, Dark

  John Owen (1904). “The Golden Book of John Owen: Passages from the Writings of the Rev. John Owen, M.A., D.D., Sometime Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford, and Dean of Christ Church”

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• The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some 'substance' by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed 'Ishvara' or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state.

  Sivananda

  Father, Heaven, Substance

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• Nature … is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.

  Robert Hooke

  Running, Sea, Rivers

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• This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Fire, Air, Space

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies were like plants, immobile, firm-rooted, nourished through long stems to the head. We might be a vapour, blowing where we listed Ours should be a war of detachment. We were to contain the enemy by the silent threat of a vast, unknown desert

  T. E. Lawrence

  War, Army, Ideas

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• Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified context can agree on, subject to vagueness considerations, and theoretical truths, such as that snow is crystallised water vapour, and maybe in-between truths.

  Catherine Wilson

  Snow, Common Sense, Water

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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