Fixed Element Wood

Famous quotes containing the words fixed, element and/or wood:

    To find the length of an object, we have to perform certain
    physical operations. The concept of length is therefore fixed when the operations by which length is measured are fixed: that is, the concept of length involves as much as and nothing more than the set of operations by which length is determined.
    Percy W. Bridgman (1882–1961)

    What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself—life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose?
    Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses and oppresses.
    —Robin Wood (b. 1931)