Power Dissipation

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or dissipation:

“When petty people get into power they consider themselves unexcelled in the world.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)