Wavelength Quotes - Page 2

• Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.

  Thomas Pynchon

  World, Weirdo

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• And now it seems she's on my wavelength. That's all I need. My mind isn't much of a comfort to me but at least I thought it was private.

  Russell Hoban

  Art, Philosophy, History

  Russell Hoban (2012). “The Turtle Diary”, p.76, A&C Black

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• The study of celestial phenomena at radio wavelengths, radio astronomy came into being after the accidental discovery of cosmic radiation by radio engineer, Karl Jansky in 1933.

  Honor Harger

  Discovery, Radio, Radiation

  "Tuning In to the Universe" by Honor Harger, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 21, 2013.

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• Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.

  Akiva Goldsman

  Sound, Tuning, Forks

  Source: collider.com

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• Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

  Geddy Lee

  Music, Emotional, Energy

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• They [the Kochs] want free trade and cheap labour. They own the second-largest private company in America, which is a huge multinational corporation. So they are on a different wavelength.

  Jane Mayer

  America, Different, Want

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The whole subject of the X rays is opening out wonderfully, Bragg has of course got in ahead of us, and so the credit all belongs to him, but that does not make it less interesting. We find that an X ray bulb with a platinum target gives out a sharp line spectrum of five wavelengths which the crystal separates out as if it were a diffraction grating. In this way one can get pure monochromatic X rays. Tomorrow we search for the spectra of other elements. There is here a whole new branch of spectroscopy, which is sure to tell one much about the nature of an atom.

  Henry Moseley

  Science, Giving, Interesting

  "H. G. J. Moseley: The Life and Letters of an English Physicist, 1887-1915" by J. L. Heilbron, University of California Press, (p. 205), 1974.

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• Even on television, the wavelengths that you use, they have to be distributed between countries.

  Hans Blix

  Country, Use, Television

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• For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.

  Max von Laue

  Strong, Rays, Example

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• It is going to be necessary that everything that happens in a finite volume of space and time would have to be analyzable with a finite number of logical operations. The present theory of physics is not that way, apparently. It allows space to go down into infinitesimal distances, wavelengths to get infinitely great, terms to be summed in infinite order, and so forth; and therefore, if this proposition [that physics is computer-simulatable] is right, physical law is wrong.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Distance, Science, Finite Number

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• The expansion of the whole cosmos was but the shrinkage of all its physical units and of the wavelengths of light.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Light, Expansion, Cosmos

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, Courier Corporation

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• …Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

  Dan Brown

  Sunset, Self Worth, Mathematical Equations

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Dwight Eisenhower, Too Late

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Even as radio waves are picked up wherever a set is tuned in to their wavelength, so the thoughts which each of us think each moment of the day go forth into the world to influence for good or bad each other human mind.

  Christmas Humphreys

  Thinking, Radio Waves, Mind

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• However far apart we pull two entagled particles, they remain 'connected' through their common wavelength function.  Their fates remain intertwined until a measurement is made on one of them, collapsing their common wavelength function.

  Jim Al-Khalili

  Fate, Two, Measurement

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• The McDonald brothers were simply not on my wavelength at all. I was obsessed with the idea of making McDonald's the biggest and the best. They were content with what they had; they didn't want to be bothered with more risks and more demands.

  Ray Kroc

  Brother, Mcdonalds, Ideas

  Ray Kroc (2016). “Grinding It Out: The Making of McDonald's”, p.90, St. Martin's Griffin

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• As a young kid I assumed that everybody was sort of on the same wavelength as I was and then I found out in a lot of small ways that that wasn't the case. It's sort of a mixed blessing. My mind is like a puppy. It goes all over. I guess writing fiction was a way of harnessing that. I could hook a puppy up to a treadmill and get something out of it.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Kids, Blessing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.

  Carl Sagan

  Sunset, Romance, Doe

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.154, Ballantine Books

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