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We define thermodynamics...as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation…

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Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the…
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of…
But when we face the great questions about gravitation Does it require time? Is it polar to the 'outside of the universe'…
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements…
In Science, it is when we take some interest in the great discoverers and their lives that it becomes endurable, and only…
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is…
Science appears to us with a very different aspect after we have found out that it is not in lecture rooms only,…
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective…
The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it…
The experimental investigation by which Ampere established the law of the mechanical action between electric currents is one of the most brilliant…
The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of…
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were…

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All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will… — David R. Brower
Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of… — Ludwig Boltzmann
I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type. — Andy Hertzfeld
When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own… — Geneen Roth
So we live in an accelerating possibility curve. Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer… — Dewitt Jones
The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current… — Karen Kingsbury
The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the… — Michael Oppenheimer
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of… — Kim Stanley Robinson
I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?! — Rick Riordan
The most amazing lesson in aerodynamics I ever had was the day I climbed a thermal in a glider at the same… — Norman Foster
Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium… — Wilhelm Wien
You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time,… — Claude Nicollier

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