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)

    I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
    That almost freezes up the heat of life.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Popularity—The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)