Universal Gas Law

Famous quotes containing the words universal, gas and/or law:

    “They are universal places, like churches, hallowed meeting places of all mankind.”
    —Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

    “... when I awake in the middle of the night, since I knew not where I was, I did not even know at first who I was; I only had in the first simplicity the feeling of existing as it must quiver in an animal.... I spent one second above the centuries of civilization, and the confused glimpse of the gas lamps, then of the shirts with turned-down collars, recomposed, little by little, the original lines of my self.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

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    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)