Adrian Bejan Quotes

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

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• I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.

  

  Yelena Baturina
  • Building
  • Development
  • Commercial

• All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

  

  Leopold Kronecker
  • Simple
  • Result
  • Investigation

• The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can be caught against a projecting edge and bent by the pressure of the current flowing past them.

  

  August Krogh
  • Past
  • Red
  • Wonderful

• The truth is the river flows into the canyon Of Ceasing-to-Question-What-Doesn't-Concern-Us, As sooner or later we have to cease somewhere.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Truth
  • Question
  • River

• Everything flows, nothing stays still.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Stays
  • Flows

• Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Good
  • Cannot
  • Flows

• There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Discourse
  • Current
  • Rudeness

• The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Study
  • Minds
  • Properties

• The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • View
  • Current
  • Holy Men

• There is only one river. There is only one sea. And it flows through you, and it flows through me. There is only one people. We are one and the same. We are all one spirit. We are all one name.

  

  Peter Yarrow
  • People
  • Spirit
  • River

• In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.

  

  Wilhelm Ostwald
  • Theory
  • Proof
  • Composition

• Magnetic current is the same as electric current. Current is [actually] the wrong expression. Really it is not one current, they are two currents, one current is composed of North Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams and the other is composed of South Pole individual magnets in concentrated streams, and they are are running one stream against the other stream in whirling, screwlike fashion, and with high speed.

  

  Edward Leedskalnin
  • Current
  • Magnet
  • Pole

• River is time in water; as it came, still so it flows, yet never is the same.

  

  Barten Holyday
  • Time
  • River
  • Flows

• Most men are like plants: they possess properties which chance discovers.

  

  Cesar Vichard de Saint-Real
  • Men
  • Plants
  • Properties

• What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning.

  

  Benjamin Bloom
  • Learn
  • Conditions
  • Current

• Anything you grab hold of on the bank breaks with the river's pressure. When you do things from your soul, the river itself moves through you. Freshness and a deep joy are signs of the current.

  

  Coleman Barks
  • Soul
  • River
  • To Do

• But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.

  

  Alexander Whyte
  • Grace
  • Direction
  • Flows

• The pre-chorus always flows and the chorus is always a little bit harder for me because I put pressure on myself. I didn't know that there was a proper way to do these things, so I just write what sounds good to me in my ears and then I hope to God that someone else likes it too.

  

  Tones and I
  • God
  • Hope
  • Pressure

• The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.

  

  Joshua Cohen
  • Writing
  • Internet
  • Properties

• If I'm with a man I'm soft and buttery.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Men
  • Ifs

• Contemplation of life after retirement and life after death can help you deal with contemporary challenges.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Challenges
  • Retirement

• Now let me step back from the problem and very generally discuss natural selection and what we know about it. I think it is safe to say that we know for sure that natural selection, as a process, does work. There is a mountain of experimental and observational evidence, much of it predating genetics, which shows that natural selection as a biological process works.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Problem
  • Mountain
  • Natural

• Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

  

  Adrian Bejan
  • Current
  • Properties
  • Flows