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)

    Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he’s likely to be an Indian.
    —William Least Heat Moon [William Trogdon] (b. 1939)

    That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.
    Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)