TURBULENCE Quotes

“The young can be so unreasonable in what they expect from”
― Giles Foden, Turbulence

“But friction is mostly a negative force, socially speaking. It reduces efficiency.” “Yes, but that negativity prevents bad plans as much as good ones. That”
― Giles Foden, Turbulence

“The process of measurement must have a beginning and end. The establishment of those points has an effect on the outcome.”
― Giles Foden, Turbulence

“you just can’t use averages to predict the specifics of the next generation of eddies, any more than you could use an average to predict the life-story of an individual human being.”
― Giles Foden, Turbulence

“Scotland might as well be a foreign country to one such as myself. But then I often felt like that in England, too, as did many of us who had grown up in the colonies. It was as if we had returned to a home different from the one we had been holding in our heads all that time.”
― Giles Foden, Turbulence

“information is perishable, lasting no longer than the structure to which it refers, just as the bathwater I was sitting in as I recalled all this would no longer be my bathwater once it ran down the plughole.”
― Giles Foden, Turbulence

“Ryman himself said—all mistakes proceed from initial conditions.”
― Giles Foden, Turbulence

“a gigantic phantom rose suddenly out of the sea. I started backwards from a tall figure projected against a wall of ice. The wall was an iceberg—and the phantom, I slowly realised, was my own reflection, enormously enlarged.”
― Giles Foden, Turbulence

“It is rescue work, this snatching of vanishing phases of turbulence, disguised in fair words, out of the native obscurity into a light where the struggling forms may be seen, seized upon, endowed with the only possible form of permanence in this world of relative values—the permanence of memory. —JOSEPH CONRAD,”
― Giles Foden, Turbulence