"Those charts were more in depth, feature-length type of thing, so it's been nice to work with more constraints".
He spoke at length of such things as mobile laboratories that were being used to cook up lethal bugs.
"And this building is full of people who speak at great length on lots of things, so I sat in my office until midnight for two nights running to go through all of this and we finally completed all the appointments last night by a series of text messages whilst I was on the platform at a huge rally in support of legal aid.
Someone asked me, "Well, why are some notes consonant and why are other notes dissonant?" And the answer has to do with ratios and string sizes and lengths of pipe and things like that, but generally speaking, pitches that are right next to each other — very close to each other — are dissonant.
"We didn't go the bathroom, we didn't move for the length of the thing.
You spoke at length about all sorts of things, including democracy, its relationship to Christianity… what were the highlights?
"At length, after much debate of things, the Governor … gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and in that regard trust to themselves … And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end".
At length, after much debate of things, the Governor (with the advice of the chiefest amongst them) gave way that they should set corn every man for his own particular, and in that regard trust to themselves; in all other thing to go on in the general way as before.
"I've seen various different cost estimates from between I think $10 million and $30 million depending on the size of the parade, the scope of it, the length of it, those types of things," he said.
More than anything else I've ever read, Rovelli reminds me of Lucretius, the first-century BCE Roman author of the epic-length poem, On the Nature of Things.
