Critical Point

Critical point may refer to:

  • Critical point (mathematics)
  • Critical point (set theory)
  • Critical point (thermodynamics)
  • Construction point of a ski jumping hill

Famous quotes containing the words critical and/or point:

    “His misfortune was that he loved youth—he was weak to it, it kindled him. If there was one eager eye, one doubting, critical mind, one lively curiosity in a whole lecture-room full of commonplace boys and girls, he was its servant. That ardour could command him. It hadn’t worn out with years, this responsiveness, any more than the magnetic currents wear out; it had nothing to do with Time.”
    —Willa Cather (1873–1947)

    “The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.”
    —Arthur Miller (b. 1915)