Specific Heat Ratio

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

“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)

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

“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)