Spectral Quotes

29 Spectral quotes by 23 unique 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… — Unknown Author
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
As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and… — Bill Vaughan
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its… — Joseph Conrad
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. — Karl Kraus
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers,… — Gaston Leroux
There is a coherence in things, a stability; something... is immune from change and shines out... in the face of the flowing, the fleeting, the… — Virginia Woolf

Who Wrote These Spectral Quotes

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