Energy Dissipation Rate

Famous quotes containing the words energy, dissipation and/or rate:

    “The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest just outside of the spectrum.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.”
    —Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)

    “Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty—excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable—should persist after the beauty was gone.”
    —Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (1866–1941)