Pendulums Quotes

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The whole curse of the last century has been what is called the Swing of the Pendulum; that is, the idea that Man must go… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
All my work keeps going like a pendulum; it seems to swing back to something I was involved with earlier, or it moves between horizontality… — Lee Krasner
For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement… — Steven Chu
The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has… — Barbara Ehrenreich
The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the hands moving, for… — Justus von Liebig
Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain… — Leon Foucault
When young Galileo, then a student at Pisa, noticed one day during divine service a chandelier swinging backwards and forwards, and convinced himself, by counting… — Hermann von Helmholtz
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. — Arthur Schopenhauer
We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle. — Thomas Jefferson
Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of… — George Bernard Shaw
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose… — Leon Foucault
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions. — Albert Einstein
Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of… — Man Ray
I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride… — Orlando Bloom
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit,… — Gillian Flynn
The pendulum of economic power might well begin to shift from capital back to labor. — Stephen S. Roach
History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that. — Robert Johnson
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and metallic as a… — Alan Lightman
The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
So often the pendulum contines to swing with the side that has just pulled themselves out of the hole. — Tony Gubba

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