True Specific Gravity

Famous quotes containing the words true, specific and/or gravity:

    “A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

    “Grown beyond nature now, soft food for worms,
    They lift frail heads in gravity and good faith.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)