Potential Energy Function

Famous quotes containing the words potential, energy and/or function:

    “Most days I feel like an acrobat high above a crowd out of which my own parents, my in-laws, potential employers, phantoms of “other women who do it” and a thousand faceless eyes stare up.”
    —Anonymous Mother. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 2 (1978)

    “I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.”
    —Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

    “The function of comedy is to dispel ... unconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysis right on to it.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)