Continuous Power Dissipation

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

    There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.
    James Madison (1751–1836)

    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)