Configurations Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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An amino acid residue (other than glycine) has no symmetry elements. The general operation of conversion of one residue of a single chain into a…
— Linus Pauling
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It has been recognized that hydrogen bonds restrain protein molecules to their native configurations, and I believe that as the methods of structural chemistry are…
— Linus Pauling
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This poem is one of a series, all of them elegiac in intention, and subject to the strange forces of mourning that let loose illogical…
— Lyn Hejinian
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source of them all, and, more…
— Victor Turner
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There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make…
— Ansel Adams
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The soul of the newly born baby is marked for life by the pattern of the stars at the moment it comes into the world,…
— Johannes Kepler
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The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Ideas, cultures, and histories cannot seriously be understood or studied without their force, or more precisely their configurations of power, also being studied.
— Edward Said
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Grief doesn't fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are…
— Jesmyn Ward
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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of…
— Yoshio Taniguchi
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Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within…
— Bill Dixon
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The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from…
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
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In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of cards can be…
— Brian Greene
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The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in chaotic clouds, occasionally clustering together in geometrically logical…
— Timothy Leary
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When judging a horoscope, it is of prime importance that we take into consideration the social and racial standing of the individual, for configurations which…
— Max Heindel
Who Wrote These Configurations Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Configurations Quotes as follows: