Equilibrium quotes
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All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.
-- Charles Fort -
There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.
-- Dmitri Mendeleev -
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.
-- Georges Bataille -
When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.
-- Immanuel Wallerstein -
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Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
-- Jose Marti -
...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.
-- Megan McCafferty -
Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
-- Nathalie Sarraute -
The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.
-- Pierre Reverdy -
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Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.
-- Priscilla Shirer -
Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.
-- Rudolf Arnheim -
The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.
-- Rudolf Clausius -
I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.
-- Steve Vai -
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Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.
-- Tom Stoppard -
[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity...
-- Victor Hugo -
We're just trying to restore equilibrium to the Universe, that's all.
-- Nikka Graff Lanzarone -
Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.
-- Megan McArdle -
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Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash equilibrium.
-- Scott Aaronson -
I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.
-- Julien Green
