The fundamental plane may refer to:
- Fundamental plane (spherical coordinates), which divides a spherical coordinate system
- Fundamental plane (elliptical galaxies), which shows an empirical relationship among mean surface brightness, velocity dispersion and effective radius of an elliptical galaxy
Famous quotes containing the words fundamental and/or plane:
“This declared indifference, but as I must think, covert real zeal for the spread of slavery, I can not but hate. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world ... and especially because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“with the plane nowhere and her body taking by the throat
The undying cry of the void falling living beginning to be something
That no one has ever been and lived through screaming without enough air”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)