Vapour Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is… — Aristotle
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by… — Aristotle
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary… — John Dalton
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Attributing global climate change to human COâ‚‚ production is akin to trying to diagnose an automotive problem by ignoring the engine (analogous to the Sun… — Timothy Ball
The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche. — John Burroughs
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the… — John Owen
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy… — Edmond Halley
What I have related is sufficient for establishing the main principle, namely, that the heat which disappears in the conversion of water into vapour, is… — Joseph Black
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. — Edmund Waller
Suppose we were (as we might be) an influence, an idea, a thing intangible, invulnerable, without front or back, drifting about like a gas? Armies… — T.E. Lawrence
Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death. — John Austin Baker
The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, The vapours weep their burthen to the ground, Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of… — Swami Vivekananda
The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour. — Pieter Zeeman
Once upon a perfect night, unclouded and still, there came the face of a pale and beautiful lady. The tresses of her hair reached out… — Kit Williams
GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness,… — William Shakespeare
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical… — William Shakespeare
The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have… — Lynne Truss

Who Wrote These Vapour Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 26 Vapour Quotes as follows: