Solid State Quotes

If a drink was ice cold, it would be impossible to drink. Because it would be solid. Here's a drink, Mitch - it's ice cold. I guess I could lick it.

I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.

Normally, you would not call ice a mineral.

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.

We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.

Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.

I was pretty sheltered growing up. I just started getting into heavier music with the Tooth & Nail/Solid State era, which really kind of brought this whole thing to life for me, so I am really thankful for that label.

The body is the substance of the stone.

That's the thing I like about my sound. It's real raw and very unsafe compared to a solid state kind of sound.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.