Torsion Balance Beam

Famous quotes containing the words balance and/or beam:

“They relieve and recommend each other, and the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“How can one beam alone support a house?”
—Chinese proverb.