Theoretical Carnot Cycle

Famous quotes containing the words theoretical, carnot and/or cycle:

    There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The General Order is always to manoeuver in a body and on the attack; to maintain strict but not pettifogging discipline; to keep the troops constantly at the ready; to employ the utmost vigilance on sentry go; to use the bayonet on every possible occasion; and to follow up the enemy remorselessly until he is utterly destroyed.
    —Lazare Carnot (1753–1823)

    The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.
    Robert M. Pirsig (b. 1928)