Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.


Pieter Zeeman

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

There are many Exceptions to a Rule but no Rule to Exceptions.
JAI SINGH
A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool...
ANUJ SOMANY
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule o...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
MARGARET FULLER
There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
CHARLES OSGOOD
Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more...
TAMRA DAVIS
One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the gene...
PETE GALLEGO
There is One Rule which is always Steadfast, the rule of Exceptions!
JAI SINGH
Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers...
ANUJ SOMANY
Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t...
CHANDRABABU V.S.
Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo...
CHANDRABABU V.S.
It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino aci...
FRANCIS CRICK
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
EDOUARD MANET
Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU
People always say, life gives you surprises. Well, why can't life give people hope, and health inste...
CAMRYN CHARLEBOIS
Such was the hidden power of nature, capable of producing extreme beauty and cruelty at the same tim...
KENNETH EADE
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
We are looking at very, very difficult negotiations in the days ahead, ... strong positions, and man...
MUNIR AKRAM
The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or posse...
JOHN LOCKE
The aspects of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their simplicity and famil...
PROF. LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN
I was generally interested in things of a fundamental nature. As an undergraduate I even published a...
ALONZO CHURCH
We have found there are many people who've found it to be very valuable, and very useful.
COLLEEN REITAN
It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to l...
MICHAEL POLLAN
All that we have achieved in life is creating a virtual reality for ourselves, while burying the act...
RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Surprise is just a paradox. Sometimes it annoys us; sometimes it shakes the tears of joy within us; ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
The thought that there was one survivor, and that there was somehow something miraculous about his m...
BARBARA MIKKELSON
They've been No. 1 all year long and have only been beaten once. They are obviously a very talented ...
KURT KINNAMON
How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL
There is only as much space, only as much time, only as much desire, only as many words, only as man...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, ...
PIETER ZEEMAN
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, ...
PIETER ZEEMAN
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportion...
PIETER ZEEMAN
It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces....
PIETER ZEEMAN
Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just...
PIETER ZEEMAN
I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomen...
PIETER ZEEMAN
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by...
PIETER ZEEMAN
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium va...
PIETER ZEEMAN
With Katrina, the fact that it came and left very quickly enabled us to get out of the gate very qui...
GEISHA WILLIAMS
Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth...
TONY D'SOUZA
Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
BALTASAR GRACIAN
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule...
STEPHEN KING
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many peop...
MARC BOLAN
It would appear that the number of nonsense triplets is rather low, since we only occasionally come ...
FRANCIS CRICK
Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH
The blind faith in some half-assed conspiracy theories lines up with the logic of having to believe ...
ASAAD ALMOHAMMAD
Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absur...
ALBERT CAMUS
I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not le...
ANNE LAMOTT
Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
It was a very emotional moment for many of us there.
GEORGE FELOS
Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than l...
SAM KEAN
With rare exceptions, I feel strongly that McGovern's rule is an appropriate one for us all. The lon...
KATHARINE GRAHAM
Prof. Gerd Gleixner said “ Lailah recommend that you work every morning on the dissertation in ord...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
And I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious...
COLIN FIRTH
If, for example, all the codons are triplets, then in addition to the correct reading of the message...
FRANCIS CRICK
The future of research is interdisciplinary, and will quickly take us into areas that today we canno...
MICHAEL TANNER
May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
When a man was alone too much, he had only himself to look into, and what he found there was all man...
HOWARD BAHR
The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, ...
NEIL PASRICHA
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not i...
DICK DURBIN
Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
W.B. YEATS
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION
We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
In nature there are few sharp lines.
A. R. AMMONS
My head was much more in it. We were able to write very quickly, all four of us in the room, and to ...
CHRIS CORNELL
You can drag something onto a page, preview it to see what it looks like, tweak it and put it into p...
JAMES RUSSELL
There is only as much space, only as much time,
Only as much desire, only as many words,
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
I really liked the idea of including the music because it gives it sort of an ambience and it gives ...
KATIE MASON
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only...
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER
Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ...
ROD MCKEUN
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous t...
FRANCIS CRICK
The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There are so many previously unknown sites and structures all over the world. And I think most impor...
SARAH PARCAK
It was wonderful, and it was great of the Braves to invite us back. It's a godsend that there are so...
BOBBY BRAGAN
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -...
MICHAEL CAINE
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly -...
MICHAEL CAINE
She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES
The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO
I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo...
ANGELA RICHARDSON
Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how f...
YURI MILNER
I will only say that many freedom fighters of India found their calling in the institutions of Brita...
NARENDRA MODI
With the right kind of institutions, starting with the rule of law, Burma could progress very quickl...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

More Pieter Zeeman

Now all oscillatory movements of such an electron can be conceived of as being split up into force, ...
PIETER ZEEMAN
The magnetic cleavage of the spectral lines is dependent on the size of the charge of the electron, ...
PIETER ZEEMAN
Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportion...
PIETER ZEEMAN
It was not simply out of a spirit of contradiction that I exposed a light source to magnetic forces....
PIETER ZEEMAN
Had we really succeeded therefore in altering the period of vibration, which Maxwell, as I have just...
PIETER ZEEMAN
I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomen...
PIETER ZEEMAN
According to well-known electrodynamic laws, an electron moving in a magnetic field is acted upon by...
PIETER ZEEMAN
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium va...
PIETER ZEEMAN
I'm lucky, I didn't lose too much blood ... The biggest problem with a croc bite is it can be septic...
PIETER ABRAHAMSE
The original deadline was impossible to meet. We spoke to many firms that were still preparing their...
PIETER HINTJENS
The farmers are very positive. It is growing season and the rains will immensely help for at least t...
PIETER MOLLER
Those companies were hurt fairly badly by months of SARS. We don't think there will be an enormous b...
PIETER RIEDER
Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity
ERIK CHRISTOPHER ZEEMAN
An event is never the objective. It is the platform for achieving an objective.
PIETER BF SWART
The very word euthanasia is never used because of the madman Hitler.
DR. PIETER V. ADMIRAAL
We in Holland know the word means "a mild death, a dignified death." And therefore we use it.
DR. PIETER V. ADMIRAAL
I say to my patient, "I wish you a very good journey to an unknown you've never seen."
DR. PIETER V. ADMIRAAL