Potential Energy Function

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

    “Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one’s own cherished beliefs.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    “The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The uses of travel are occasional, and short; but the best fruit it finds, when it finds it, is conversation; and this is a main function of life.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)