Specific Heat Ratio

Famous quotes containing the words specific, heat and/or ratio:

“I recognize in [my readers] a specific form and individual property, which our predecessors called Pantagruelism, by means of which they never take anything the wrong way that they know to stem from good, honest and loyal hearts.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)

“Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)