High Vacuum Systems

Famous quotes containing the words high, vacuum and/or systems:

    “To that high Capital, where kingly Death
    Keeps his pale court in beauty and decay,
    He came.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “No, it wasn’t an accident, I didn’t say that. It was carefully planned, down to the tiniest mechanical and emotional detail. But it was a mistake. It was a beaut. In the end, somehow granted the time for examination, we shall find that our so-called civilization was gloriously destroyed by a handful of vacuum tubes and transistors. Probably faulty.”
    —John Paxton (1911–1985)

    “Our little systems have their day;
    They have their day and cease to be:
    They are but broken lights of thee,
    And thou, O Lord, art more than they.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)