A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of… — Albert A. Michelson Copy Share Image
In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
One of the reforms to be carried out during the incoming administration is a change in our monetary and banking laws, so… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and… — Nick Faldo Copy Share Image
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
With this particular series [The Cursed Wheel] I'm going farther in that direction than I've tried before in terms of the elasticity… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I did feel a little afraid, as you say, the complete liberty and "elasticity" of it. But I found that I liked… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Years of depression have robbed me of that—well, that give, that elasticity that everyone else calls perspective. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image