Distance Quote by Archimedes

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two…

— Rudolf Arnheim

Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

— Archimedes

Similarity is stasis; difference is motion. And if the two happen to exist in dynamic equilibrium, everything is right in the world.

— Youngme Moon

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own…

— Leonardo da Vinci

“It should be clearly understood that this term “equilibrium” does not mean a static halt to action, although it conceivably could be this. More…

— J.C. Wylie

“Even when a damped, driven system is at equilibrium, it is not at equilibrium,”

— James Gleick

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized…

— Piet Mondrian

“If we know in what way society is unbalanced, we must do what we can to add weight to the lighter scale ... we…

— Simone Weil

To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least…

— Anonymous