#absence

In the absence of a magnetic field the period of all these oscillations is the same. But as soon as the electron is exposed to the effect of a magnetic field, its motion changes. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#changes #effect #electron #exposed #field

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself. ↗

— Henry Adams

#absolute #free #himself #ideally #individual

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? ↗

— Saint Augustine

#absence #justice #organized #robbery #sovereignty

Martin said, "It feels as though part of my self has detached and gone to Amsterdam, where it—she—is waiting for me. Do you know about phantom-limb syndrome?" Julia nodded. "There's pain where she ought to be. It's feeding the other pain, the thing that makes me wash and count and all that. So her absence is stopping me from going to find her. Do you see? ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#love #ocd #pain #love

Life has become the ideology of its own absence. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#become #ideology #life #own

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#deer #during #fine #four #fox

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#asylum #complexion #due #jerusalem #lunatic

Wilderness is not defined by the absence of certain activities, but rather by the presence of certain unique and invaluable characteristics. ↗

— Nick Rahall

#activities #certain #characteristics #defined #invaluable

When you're having a bad day at work, a lot of times it's your head. When you're having good days, a lot of times it's the absence of the mind. ↗

— Curt Schilling

#bad #bad day #day #days #good

If Bill Finger created Batman, where is Bill Finger's byline on my strip? It is conspicuous by its absence. ↗

— Bob Kane

#batman #bill #conspicuous #created #finger