#equilibrium

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#being #being there #column #enough #enter

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#back #chaos #collapse #disappear #environment

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future. ↗

— Joseph Needham

#ecological #equilibrium #future #hierarchy #idea

The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

#equilibrium #expectations #first #function #likelihood

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#hope #hopeful #life

Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#death #equilibrium #life #death

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest. ↗

— Pieter Zeeman

#directly proportional #displaced #displacement #electron #equilibrium

Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men. ↗

— Jose Marti

#equilibrium #fortunately #men #nations #sane

We can not have equilibrium in this world with the current inequality and destruction of Mother Earth. Capitalism is what is causing this problem and it needs to end. ↗

— Evo Morales

#causing #current #destruction #earth #end

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized. ↗

— Romano Prodi

#equilibrium #information #minimized #must #politics