Solid State Physics

Famous quotes containing the words solid, state and/or physics:

“Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”
—Aristotle (384–322 B.C.)

“He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. But we would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)