Density Quotes
77 quotes by 74 authors
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...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance,…
— George F. Kennan
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Twenty centuries of 'progress' have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself,…
— Aldo Leopold
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With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of neutrons.…
— Fritz Zwicky
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The next decade will perhaps raise us a step above despair to a cleaner, clearer wisdom and biology cannot fail to help in this. As…
— H. Bentley Glass
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In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors, to the critical…
— Victor J. Stenger
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We have to prepare our cities for the increasing scarcity of resources by increasing their density and energy efficiency.
— Mathis Wackernagel
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I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.
— Maureen Howard
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The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large city,…
— Minoru Mori
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Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.
— Clark Coolidge
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I gotta work out. I keep saying it all the time. I keep saying I gotta start working out. Its been about two months since…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let…
— Sally Field
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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in…
— Rem Koolhaas
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Make it nice where you are, and put the density on top.
— Jan Gehl
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Surveying the available alternative energy sources for criteria such as energy density, environmental impacts, reliance on depleting raw materials, intermittency versus constancy of supply, and…
— Richard Heinberg
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The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that the idea of…
— Alexander Calder
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It is only in a crowd that man can become free of this fear of being touched. That is the only situation in which the…
— Elias Canetti
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Density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... Gramsci's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing,…
— Edward Said
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We are just strings of quarks living in a suburb of the local density maximum of the universe.
— John D. Barrow
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According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting…
— Seth Lloyd
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All we know if an angel is that it is incorporeal, immaterial, and only by comparing it with God-who is incomparable-can we see that it…
— John of Damascus
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