Chromatic Quotes

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet. - Gerry Mulligan

We raised the energy so the x-rays are more penetrating but created a narrower distribution of energies using a heavy K-edge filter. Our data using the quasi-monochromatic beam show that the image quality does not change, even when we dramatically drop the radiation dose. - Martin Tornai

To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles DarwinCharles Darwin

They're in the monochromatic tones of the outfits, and that helps elongate the strong, narrow line of the silhouette. - Mario Bandiera

It was written for the key bugle, the first chromatic trumpet. - Michael Sachs

Again I reply to the triple winds
running chromatic fifths of derision
outside my window:
Play louder. - William Carlos Williams