Arms Quote by Rudolf Arnheim

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which…

— Archimedes

Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a…

— Michael Crichton

“It should be clearly understood that this term “equilibrium” does not mean a static halt to action, although it conceivably could be this. More…

— J.C. Wylie

“Even when a damped, driven system is at equilibrium, it is not at equilibrium,”

— James Gleick

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

— Pearl S. Buck

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Every situation is an equilibrium of forces; every life is a struggle between opposing forces working within the limits of a certain equilibrium

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“It is important to recall at the outset that by a cognitive equilibrium (which is analogous to the stability of a living organism) we…

— Ulrich Müller

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

— Pierre Reverdy

It is wonderful to contemplate how the planetary forces balance each other so perfectly that universal equilibrium is maintained despite the disturbances of the…

— Max Heindel