Specific Heat Ratio

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

    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)

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

    People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
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