"Half-life" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... were not vital; and a great while it would take for the earth within their pyramid to receive back the life-elements. And we told them certain ways by which they might bring a more speedy life to the soil; and this they were eager to do, being freshly alive after so long a time of half-life. ...
— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson
... returned the little prophet. "I think rather we have done with it for ever. The man with life so in himself, will not dream of asking whether he shall live. It is only in the twilight of a half-life, holding in it at once much wherefore it should desire its own continuance, and much that renders it unworthy of continuance, that the doubtful desire of immortality can arise.—Do you remember"—here Polwarth turned to Wingfold—"my mentioning to you once a ...
— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald
... Willows said. "Half-life forty-six point five days. Beta and gamma emitter. Converts to Thallium ...
— The Bramble Bush • Gordon Randall Garrett
... "What's the half-life of that stuff in the freighter?" I asked Orrin. I knew, but I wanted Goil to know too. ...
— Jack of No Trades • Charles Cottrell
... not believe we can. But they can torture us," replied Lambert. "It is an everlasting half-life or quarter-life, and these creatures who call this Hell's Dimension home, have nothing but hatred for us ...
— Astounding Stories, April, 1931 • Various |
