Specific Heat Capacity

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

    In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    When the heat of the summer
    Made drowsy the land,
    A dragon-fly came
    And sat on my hand;
    Eleanor Farjeon (1881–1965)

    The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.
    Marian Wright Edelman (20th century)