Macquorn Rankine Quotes

#1. Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.

Lord Henry Wotton

#2. We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

Patti Smith

#3. This law (regarding the theoretical efficiency of heat engines by Mr. Joule), and the law of the maximum efficiency of heat engines, are particular cases of a general law which regulates all transformation of energy, and is the basis of the Science of Energetics.

William John Macquorn Rankine

#4. I decided it is better to scream. Silence is the real crime against humanity.

Nadezhda Mandelstam

#5. Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds of men; and that fallacy, through rejected by their judgments, continues to exert and influence over their acts.

William John Macquorn Rankine

#6. The law of the conservation of energy is already known, viz. that the sum of the actual and potential energies in the universe is unchangeable.

William John Macquorn Rankine

#7. A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.

William John Macquorn Rankine

#8. So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.

Sebastian Bach

#9. These television shows that have 14 shots of somebody looking at each other with the wind blowing through their hair drive me insane.

Amy Sherman-Palladino