Equilibrium quotes
31 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies."
"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."
"I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper."
"[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity."
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"Living things have no inertia, and tend to no equilibrium."
"Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech."
