Spectral Quotes

29 quotes by 23 authors

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. — John Berger
The act of vagabonding is not an isolated trend so much as it is a spectral connection between people long separated by place and time,… — Rolf Potts
In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single… — Austin O'Malley
What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow. — Franz Marc
The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle. — Johannes Stark
We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which we… — Johannes Stark
Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it contained… — Dusa McDuff
On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains… — Pieter Zeeman
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before… — Arthur Helps
Outside intelligences, exploring the Solar System with true impartiality, would be quite likely to enter the Sun in their records thus: Star X, spectral class… — Isaac
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving her hands indefatigably… — Virginia Woolf
Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light… — Charles Dickens
The emitters of the spectral series are without exception single atoms, not compounds of atoms. — Johannes Stark
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral. — Max Beerbohm
In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral… — Johannes Stark
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, or, more accurately, on the ratio between… — Pieter Zeeman
Further in Summer than the Birds Pathetic from the Grass A minor Nation celebrates Its unobtrusive Mass. No Ordinance be seen So gradual the Grace… — Emily Dickinson
The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be… — Max Planck

Who Wrote These Spectral Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 29 Spectral Quotes as follows: