Francis Collins

Genes are effectively one-dimensional. If you write down the sequence of A, C, G and T, that's kind of what you need to know about that gene. But proteins are three-dimensional. They have to be because we are three-dimensional, and we're made of those proteins. Otherwise we'd all sort of be linear, unimaginably weird creatures.

American Scientist

Lily Cole

The relationship between art and a job is not quite linear, but I really love any and all manifestations of art, really respect any kind of artistic impulse, whether it's paintings and sculptures or really good filmmaking or music. I really see the relationships between these different mediums as very fluid.

English Actress

Riz Ahmed

Trajectories aren't linear. Life's just a roller coaster. If you're getting a chance to do cool stuff, and it's varied stuff, just enjoy it. I guess I'm a believer in the randomness of life rather than it being a linear trajectory or an arc, a consistent smooth arc, towards anything.

British Musician

Vivek Oberoi

In 'Road,' my character is linear and uni-dimensional. It was more of a reacting character. I am a foil to the other characters in the film. It is the most normal character in the most abnormal, extraordinary film.

Indian Actor

Tony Buzan

Children are trained to think linearly instead of imaginatively; they are taught to read slowly and carefully, and are discouraged from daydreaming. They are trained to reduce the use and capacity of their brain.

English Author

Paul Provenza

Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.

American Actor

H. R. McMaster

The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.

American Public Servant

Evangeline Lilly

The Hobbit' didn't include female characters at all and was a very linear story, a book for children, really.

Canadian Actress

J. Courtney Sullivan

I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.

American Novelist

Nina Easton

The discovery of heroes is rarely linear or obvious. They usually sneak up on you.

American Journalist

In non-math contexts, 'linear' may describe a process that's straightforward without sudden changes.

Metaphorical Usage

'Linear' can describe storytelling that follows a chronological order without flashbacks.

Narrative Structure

'Linear' in math indicates a predictable, continuous change, often used in everyday contexts to imply simplicity.

Predictable Changes

'Linear' suggests that if plotted on a graph, the data points would form a straight line.

Graphical Representation

In art or design, 'linear' can indicate simplicity, focusing on lines without complex shapes.

Simplicity in Art

'Linear' may be used to describe objects that are very long but not wide or thick, like strings.

Physical Attributes

'Linear' can suggest an organized and efficient setting, useful in practical discussions.

Efficient Arrangement

In geometry, 'linear' implies that multiple elements share the same line or direction.

Geometric Consistency

In management, 'linear' often highlights consistent production rates without fluctuations.

Constant Rate

In business, 'linear' processes are simple to understand and manage due to their predictability.

Straightforward Processes

 maintaining a long-term equilibrium and allowing a food chain to persist over time. Feedback processes might seem counterintuitive because many of us are used to more predictable linear scenarios of cause and effect. For instance, it seems simple enough that spraying pesticides would help plants grow by killing pest insects,

Feedback loops: How...

 passionate about it i gave it a go and there are lots of really good reasons some of those choices could have been really daft and were in retrospect but each time i made a daft choice it did open up doors to the next one and so your trajectory and your plan does not have to be this linear thing you organize

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 anyone can make plastic anywhere in the world and sell it anywhere else in the world there's no design paradigm there's no barriers in order to solve the plastic packaging problem we need to effectively rethink the entire system from one which is linear ie take make dispose to one where it can be recovered

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 you wouldn't accelerate in a linear fashion. Instead, you would instantaneously jump, or transition, from one speed to the next. For an atom, when a transition occurs from one energy level to another, quantum mechanics says that the energy difference is equal to a characteristic frequency,

How does your smartphone...

 Now imagine that same bottle full of a liquid like water. That would pour like a dream. Ketchup, though, can't seem to make up its mind. Is it is a solid? Or a liquid? The answer is, it depends. The world's most common fluids like water, oils and alcohols respond to force linearly.

Why is ketchup so hard...

 better at doing that together and I call this a loop by the way so the process of making the sense of the world is not really a linear thing from the mind to the world from the world to the mind but it goes through other people all the time part of that is socially constructed by

Meet my robot...

 The reduced temperature differences between the two regions may lead to slower jet stream winds and less linear atmospheric circulation in the middle latitudes, where most of the world's population lives. Many scientists are concerned that shifts in weather patterns

Why the Arctic is...

 or sometimes explicitly, a different that life is not linear; it's organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help to create for us. But, you know, we have become obsessed with this linear narrative.

Bring on the learning...

 worldwide, right? Would any of you complain if this was the case about doing linear algebra? So what we are asking in the lab is, how can we leverage that power? Now I want to step back a bit. I know most of you have had the experience of coming back

Your brain on video...

 Aided perhaps a bit by being easier to isolate and by less density, less population density. But nonetheless, smart policies down there. Yeah, everything is so exponential that a little bit of good work goes a long way. It's not a linear game.