Energy Release Rate

Famous quotes containing the words energy, release and/or rate:

    “But often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.”
    —Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    “The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “I don’t know but a book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf—at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel—you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety—& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)