Wave Motion Quotes

Just as the ocean is waving so each one of us is a waving of the whole cosmos, the entire works, all there is.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Waves, once they land on the beach, are not reversible.

Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies.

I move in the university of the waves.

Long on the wave reflected lustres of play.

Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

People think of waves as going in an orderly crash - whoosh - crash - whoosh, but in fact there are lots of different crashes and whooshes, all at different stages, and all going off at the same time.

A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.

An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

I was happiest between the waves.

Physics has found no straight lines. Instead, the physical universe consists of only waves undulating back and forth allowing for corrections and balance.

Every wave is new until it breaks.

You are something that the whole world is doing just as when the sea has waves on it.

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

A long sea implies an uniform and steady motion of long and extensive waves; on the contrary, a short sea is when they run irregularly, broken, and interrupted; so as frequently to burst over a vessel's side or quarter.

It is seen that both matter and radiation possess a remarkable duality of character, as they sometimes exhibit the properties of waves, at other times those of particles. Now, it is obvious that a thing cannot be a form of wave motion and composed of particles at the same time - the two concepts are too different.

A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form.