Specific Heat Capacity

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

    “The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Red river, red river,
    Slow flow heat is silence
    No will is still as a river
    Still.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)