Phase Transition/characteristic Properties

Famous quotes containing the words phase, transition and/or properties:

    “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    “The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that which is not.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute; strength of a host, as well as of a hero.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)