Watt Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a… — Bill Bryson
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the… — Jeremy Rifkin
True greatness is when your name is like ampere, watt, and fourier-when it's spelled with a lower case letter. — Richard Hamming
Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery's being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led… — Edward Teller
Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better. — Bill Cowher
When have you ever seen a one on one match up on this platform? Andrew Luck on offenseâ€¦going against J.J. Watt — Bill Cowher
A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business. — Shelley Berman
Day and night I try, in my studio with its six two-thousand watt suns, balancing between the extremes of the impossible, to shake loose the… — Erwin Blumenfeld
I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe… — David Antin
The best ideas aren't hidden in shadowy recesses. They're right in front of us, hidden in plain sight. Innovation seldom depends on discovering obscure or… — Richard Farson
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention,… — Rick Bragg
For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged… — Alexander Fleming
To begin with, the key principle of American indie rock wasn't a circumscribed musical style; it was the punk ethos of DIY, or do-it-yourself. Â The… — Michael Azerrad
I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my… — Nathan Fillion
Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting… — Thomas Carlyle
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and… — Joseph Heller
Mike Watt and I had the same teacher. Mr. Tanaka. — Krist Novoselic
To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt… — Edward S. Walker, Jr.
O thrice unhappy home Whose master doesn't know the difference between a watt and an ohm! — Ogden Nash

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