Continuous Power Dissipation

Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:

    I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
    Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)

    He had come down, He said, to clean the earth
    Of the dirtiness of war.
    Now tell of why His power failed Him there?
    His power did not fail. It was that, simply,
    He found how much the people wanted war.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
    Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)