Displacements Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal… — Herbert Butterfield
• I have now and again tried to imagine the perfect environment, the ideal conditions for reading: A worn leather armchair on a rainy night? A… — Michael Dirda
• What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the… — James Clerk Maxwell
• The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to… — Lewis Mumford
• Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman: a lucky charm,… — Anne Fadiman
• Many...have learned that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a… — Thomas Hardy
• Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is… — Lionel Shriver
• The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths, and… — Rebecca Solnit

Who Wrote These Displacements Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Displacements Quotes as follows:

• 1 Displacements Quote by Michael Dirda
• 1 Displacements Quote by James Clerk Maxwell
• 1 Displacements Quote by Lewis Mumford
• 1 Displacements Quote by Anne Fadiman
• 1 Displacements Quote by Thomas Hardy
• 1 Displacements Quote by Lionel Shriver
• 1 Displacements Quote by Rebecca Solnit
• 1 Displacements Quote by Herbert Butterfield