Quotes and Sayings About Density

Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.
-- Albert A. Michelson

#Would Be #Density #Analysis

Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.
-- Alexander Graham Bell

#Air #Sound #Density

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich...
-- Alice James

#Book #Density #Shapes

Weight-bearing exercise builds bone density, builds your muscular strength so that you can hold your body up where those bones have a tendency to get weak.
-- Ann Richards

#Exercise #Density #Weight

I can double my density from three-sixty degrees to seven-twenty instantly.
-- Canibus

#Three #Density #Twenties

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.
-- Carl Friedrich Gauss

#Density #Velocity #Mass

Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
-- Clark Coolidge

#Quality #Density #Shapes

This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process-this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries.
-- Ellen Gallagher

#Recovery #Ideas #Density

I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.
-- Emily Carr

#Density #Juice #Earth