William John Macquorn Rankine Quotes

In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.

William John Macquorn Rankine

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• I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Home
  • Start
  • Talking

• Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Long
  • Best
  • Acting

• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Man
  • Impossible
  • Jump

• I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • School
  • Love
  • Sports

• I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Reputation

• One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Books
  • Morality
  • Reasons

• There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Day
  • Internet
  • They Say

• In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Country
  • Challenge
  • Red

• Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • White
  • Lincoln
  • Supremacy

• The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Past
  • Action
  • Comforting

• I started feeling secure in every way once I began to accept myself the way I was. Whether that was emotional, financial or professional security, all of it came and embraced me because I embraced myself.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Feeling
  • Myself
  • Emotional

• I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Kids

• Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Because
  • Smoking
  • Tobacco

• And I have known the eyes already, known them all - The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Eyes
  • Wall

• The social revolution has been slow in reaching our country. We have been exempt, not because we had solved the problems, but because we had not yet confronted them.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Country
  • Revolution

• I had this story from one who had no business to tell it to me, or to any other. I may credit the seductive influence of an old vintage upon the narrator for the beginning of it, and my own skeptical incredulity during the days that followed for the balance of the strange tale.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • May
  • Business
  • Beginning

• I am persuaded, therefore, that the Maryland procedure is virtually constitutional. Since it is not, however, actually constitutional, I would affirm the judgment of the Maryland Court of Appeals reversing the judgment of conviction.

  

  Antonin Scalia

• I'm not technically rich, but I do have a lot of shit that I don't need, and I refuse to share with others.

  

  Maria Bamford

• Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

  

  Albert Camus
  • God
  • Style
  • Choose

• Television's Mr. Filth: that's me.

  

  Dennis Potter

• My favorite part of any project is the preparation. It's where you get to meet the people, the experts.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • People
  • Preparation

• If we do not act together, we will surely perish.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Together
  • Perish
  • Surely

• In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity.

  

  William John Macquorn Rankine
  • Purpose
  • Phenomenon
  • Investigation