If the wave is getting bigger, it causes the time to grow…

A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

For under certain conditions the chemical atoms emit light waves of a specific length or oscillation frequency - their familiar characteristic spectra - and…

— Johannes Stark

I believe, in spite of all, in truth's victory. I believe in the momentous value, hereafter inviolable, of those few truly fraternal men in…

— Henri Barbusse

When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by…

— Hermann von Helmholtz

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations…

— George Bernard Shaw

Many of us may have watched the waves at sea. They rise, then fall, then rise again, then fall again... and this cycle continues…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme…

— Pieter Zeeman

[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are…

— David Attenborough

Sometimes, when I am tired of so many oscillations, I look for refuge in a word which I begin to love for itself. Resting…

— Gaston Bachelard

The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I…

— Leon Foucault

Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a subject at work. ...…

— Alfred Binet

There are a lot of parallels between the historical Henry VIII and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. There's an oscillation and extremity of emotion throughout his…

— Natalie Dormer

The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central…

— William John Macquorn Rankine

What we are saying is that on top of the warming trend there is a long-periodic oscillation that will probably lead to a lower…

— Mojib Latif

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…

— Immanuel Kant