Sympathetic Vibrations Quotes

“The earth doesn't move backward (very much) when you walk only because it's much more massive than you are.”
― K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics As a Way of Life

“All measurement begins (and in the end, ends) with ourselves.”
― K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics As a Way of Life

“Metaphors, like perceptions, are drawn from common experiences.”
― K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics As a Way of Life

“Science aims at a closer relation between word and fact.”
― K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics As a Way of Life

“Familiarity is soporific,' writes physicist B. K. Ridley. 'It breeds consent to whatever models we're used to.”
― K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics As a Way of Life

“You can't begin to measure something until you make some assumptions about what that something is.”
― K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics As a Way of Life

“Once you become fluent in a language or in a set of ideas, you immediately internalize them to the extent that other languages and ideas sound automatically strange and foreign.”
― K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics As a Way of Life

“Imagine (if you can) what the planetary model of the atom would have looked like — its satellite electrons orbiting its sunlike nucleus — if people had still thought the earth was flat. It would have been — literally — unthinkable.”
― K.C. Cole, Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics As a Way of Life