Specific Heat Capacity

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

“Self-esteem and self-contempt have specific odors; they can be smelled.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

“We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

“Where mass opinion dominates the government, there is a morbid derangement of the true functions of power. The derangement brings about the enfeeblement, verging on paralysis, of the capacity to govern. This breakdown in the constitutional order is the cause of the precipitate and catastrophic decline of Western society. It may, if it cannot be arrested and reversed, bring about the fall of the West.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)