Benjamin Thompson Quotes

To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

Benjamin Thompson

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• I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • People
  • Good
  • Way

• Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Responsibility
  • Talent
  • Accident

• When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

  

  Leonard Shlain
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Change

• There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Book
  • Game
  • Comedy

• Every inch of the way, the drug has shown its safety, and each of the groups here and certainly us have been satisfied with the safety.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Way
  • Safety
  • Drug

• No matter what people say, your fans are the ones that come to watch the movie or come to your shows and that's the most important thing.

  

  Ashlee Simpson
  • People
  • Important
  • Movie

• The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Knowledge
  • Growing
  • Keys

• Money was established for exchange, but interest causes it to be reproduced by itself. Therefore this way of earning money is greatly in conflict with the natural law.

  

  Aristotle
  • Money
  • Law
  • Interest

• I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Business
  • Death
  • Burden

• By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band.

  

  Tommy Shaw Styx
  • Band
  • Learned
  • Solo Album

• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Live

• If any of you have ever lived down south of the Mason-Dixon line, you know that late September still means summer heat.

  

  Scott Porter
  • Summer
  • September
  • Heat

• Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments, in which the agents concerned are placed under new circumstances, and their diversified properties separately examined. The body of natural science, then, consists of facts; is analogy,-the relation of resemblance of facts by which its different parts are connected, arranged, and employed, either for popular use, or for new speculative improvements.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Science
  • Circumstances
  • Experiments

• The permafrost is still warmest at the very bottom, but instead of being coldest at the top, it is coldest somewhere in the middle, and warmer again toward the surface. This is a sign—and an unambiguous one—that the climate is heating up.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Climate
  • Heat
  • Sign

• Whenever we can make 25 words do the work of 50, we halve the area in which looseness and disorganization can flourish.

  

  Wilson Follett
  • Writing

• To engage in experiments on heat was always one of my most agreeable employments.

  

  Benjamin Thompson
  • Experiments
  • Heat
  • Engage