Sentence examples for smallest conceivable from inspiring English sources

He was very quotable, and every quote stresses the ambiguity of the new realm he was opening up, the realm of the smallest conceivable things in the universe.

This storage of DDT begins with the smallest conceivable intake, and the fatty storage depots act as biological magnifiers, so that an intake of as little as one-tenth of one part per million in the diet results in the storage of from ten to fifteen parts per million — a hundredfold increase, or more.

Now, scientists may have taken one step toward surmounting that problem by creating the smallest conceivable mechanical switch one involving just two atoms.

But Democritus' version had been the object of critiques by later thinkers, especially Aristotle, in part for incoherencies in the notion of an infinite void, in part for problems attaching to his idea of minima, or entities of the smallest conceivable size (see especially Physics Book 6).

Drawing attention to what is given in an instant of awareness (the smallest conceivable moment of consciousness), he maintains that any knowledge or recognition found in such an instant would have to be characterized by a concept (or "essence" to use Santayana's term).

But though Coloradans are, as I say, entitled to be hostile toward homosexual conduct, the fact is that the degree of hostility reflected by Amendment 2 is the smallest conceivable.

Each pixel of this screen would occupy one square Planck length, 10-35 by 10-35 square meters, the smallest area conceivable by the laws of physics.

The activities book downstairs offers every conceivable small-scale farming activity.

As cancers overdiagnosed are SD, and SD cancers are relatively small, it is conceivable to conclude that there is an ecological association between overdiagnosis and small lesions.

Unfortunately, string theory is generally considered untestable: The seven extra dimensions are usually assumed to curl up so small that no conceivable experiment would detect them.

If replacement clutches are smaller than first clutches in California least tern, it is conceivable that small average clutch sizes at a particular site could result from high egg predation or abandonment rates and large numbers of replacement clutches rather than reduced reproductive investment.