Equilibrium Quotes

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the labors of the mind which incessantly contradict what they have just established.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

When systems come to be far from points of equilibrium, they reach bifurcation points, wherein multiple, as opposed to unique, solutions, to instability become possible.

Now equilibrium is the very opposite of disorder.

All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

Happiness is equilibrium. Shift your weight.

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

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

The entropy of an isolated system not in equilibrium will tend to increase over time, approaching a maximum value at equilibrium.

The point in lifeis to find equilibrium in what is inherently unstable.

Again and again, I've undergone the humbling experience of first lamenting how badly something sucks, then only much later having the crucial insight that its not sucking wouldn't have been a Nash equilibrium.

Entrenched customs represent a social equilibrium, and moving away from that equilibrium is difficult to do on your own.

I'm always pursuing knowledge; I'm a seeker of spiritual equilibrium - and music is a big part of that.

...he makes me feel out of control and out of my head. He is exhilarating and terrifying. I see and feel him everywhere, and I'm always grasping for equilibrium even when he's not there... I feel like I'm always falling in love, falling and falling and falling.

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

Equilibrium is enjoyably classy trash.

The blues is always there. It's going to be hard out here, but it's all right. It's all right, and that's what the blues teaches you. You got to roll with the punches and find your equilibrium.

I like to be sad once in a while. You need it for your equilibrium.

I'd say that I'm also recommending [Equilibrium] for the cool gun battles.

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

[The notion of equilibrium] is a notion which can be employed usefully in varying degrees of looseness. It is an absolutely indispensable part of the toolbag of the economist and one which he can often contribute usefully to other sciences which are occasionally apt to get lost in the trackless exfoliations of purely dynamic systems.

No one imposes things on anyone in Europe. That's not my notion, nor is it my temperament. The EU has always functioned under the banner of respect, equilibrium and trust.

We're just trying to restore equilibrium to the Universe, that's all.

Living things have no inertia,
and tend to no equilibrium.