Specific Heat Capacity

Famous quotes containing the words specific, heat and/or capacity:

    I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
    But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.
    John Webster (1580–1625)

    Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.
    William Hazlitt (1778–1830)