"The frequencies of the notes in a scaleâ€”do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, doâ€”sound to us like theyâ€™re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically."

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Source : Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Steven Strogatz

#Rising Quotes #Steps Quotes #Sound Quotes

“I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.”
“My life has always been my music, it's always come first, but the music ain't worth nothing if you can't lay it on the public. The main thing is to live for that audience, 'cause what you're there for is to please the people.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.”
“To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.”
“You are encircled by the arms of the mystery of God.”
“Looking back now I realise that the worst things that happened to me were the best things in disguise - I just didnâ€™t know how to read the signs.”
“A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.”
“I think if you asked people "what's the biggest problem in your life?" They'd say, "I just don't have time for anything!" And at our fingertips, if it isn't e-mail, it's our Blackberry, and it's our iPods and telephones - we never stop. We never take those moments to stop the stimulus to find out "what's going on in there? What's really happening?" And then things start to build up. And then we are almost afraid to slow down.”

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