William John Macquorn Rankine Quotes

The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.

William John Macquorn Rankine

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• I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Food
  • Thought
  • Yourself

• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Depression
  • Bed

• On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • People
  • Up
  • Walk

• One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Real
  • Need
  • Face

• I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Fly
  • Risks

• Tokenization applies to scarce assets. Today, the most appropriate thing to tokenize is something that's purely digital. Bitcoin and ethereum are the canonical.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • Today
  • Most
  • Digital

• The United States will remain the most powerful nation on Earth for the next 10, 15 years, but the context in which she holds her power has now radically altered.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • She
  • Power
  • Earth

• The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • World
  • Family
  • Planning

• It's wet from all the guitar players crying.

  

  Brian Jones The Rolling Stones
  • Guitar
  • Players
  • Crying

• The paper on Iran is a paper of reflection. As you know the situation of Iran today is in the Security Council. It has been a statement by the Presidency of Council last month.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Reflection
  • Paper
  • Iran

• It was a technical mistake on their (DEP) end.

  

  John Curtin
  • Mistake
  • Technical

• You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Paradise
  • Saint

• It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Ignorance
  • Relax
  • Hide

• How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Discovery
  • Aries

• My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Hurt
  • Drug
  • Fighters

• Memewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with me. It reminds me how being a reader can be exciting.

  

  Nicole Brossard
  • Book
  • Language
  • Eye

• The destination of the photograph is to reveal what something or somebody looked like, under a particular set of conditions, at a particular moment in time, and to transmit the results to others.

  

  David Hurn
  • Moment
  • Photograph
  • Particular

• By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Mankind
  • Divorce
  • Faculty

• Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

  

  Wasif Ali Wasif
  • Desire
  • Duty
  • Conflict

• I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

  

  Fever Ray
  • Trying
  • Ideas
  • Yourself

• The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.

  

  William John Macquorn Rankine
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