Reaction

Famous quotes containing the word reaction:

    “The excessive increase of anything often causes a reaction in the opposite direction.”
    —Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

    “Sole and self-commanded works,
    Fears not undermining days,
    Grows by decays,
    And, by the famous might that lurks
    In reaction and recoil,
    Makes flames to freeze, and ice to boil.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)