Combustion Quotes
49 quotes by 44 authors
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite…
— Winston Churchill
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Creativity is the mother of all energies, nurturer of your most alive self. It charges up every part of you. When you're plugged in, a…
— Judith Orloff
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Holding back technology to reserve business models is like allowing blacksmiths to veto the internal combustion engine in order to protect their horseshoes.
— Don Tapscott
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Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind…
— Michael Faraday
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For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough…
— Carl Ludwig
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The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given…
— Robert Mayer
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Typical of the fundamental scientific problems whose solution should lead to important industrial consequences are, for example, the release of atomic energy, which experiment has…
— Arthur Compton
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...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over, say,…
— Al Gore
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The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.
— Winston Churchill
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Fulfilling the four needs [spiritual, mental, physical, social] in an integrated way is like combining elements in chemistry. When we reach a "critical mass" of…
— Stephen Covey
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What would happen if you melted? You know, you never really hear this talked about much, but spontaneous combustion? It exists!...[people] burn from within...sometimes theyll…
— Keanu Reeves
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
— Cyril Connolly
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Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
— Dick Morris
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I know that the right kind of leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine who must not in any way permit himself…
— Aneurin Bevan
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I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power…
— Bill Ford
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Of all the unexpected qualities of an unexpected universe, the sheer organizing power of animal and plant metabolism is one of the most remarkable. .…
— Loren Eiseley
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Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of…
— Peter Brook
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Share your presence with others, no boundaries, completely, openly, lovingly. Love is what makes us alive, that is why we feel so alive when we…
— Alex Grey
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We have a tremendous investment in facilities for (internal combustion engines, transmissions, and axles) and I can't see throwing them away just because the electric…
— Henry Ford II
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In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is…
— Antoine Lavoisier
Who Wrote These Combustion Quotes
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