Combustion Quotes

49 quotes by 44 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...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
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind. — Winston Churchill
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
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
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
Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future. — Dick Morris
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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