Crystal Field

Famous quotes containing the words crystal and/or field:

    “Comets, importing change of times and states,
    Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)