Wien Quotes

#1. Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir
or Sewer
Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Tony's.

Patrick Dennis

#2. Since we can produce all types of light by means of hot bodies, we can ascribe, to the radiation in thermal equilibrium with hot bodies, the temperature of these bodies, and thus every radiation, even that issuing from a phosphorescent body, has a certain temperature for every colour.

Wilhelm Wien

#3. According to the kinetic theory of gases, the mean kinetic energy of a molecule is a measure of absolute temperature.

Wilhelm Wien

#4. I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn.

Ellen Page

#5. And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

W.B.Yeats

#6. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive.

Jackie French

#7. As soon as we step beyond the established boundaries of pure thermodynamic theory, we enter a trackless region confronting us with obstacles which even the most astute of us are almost at a loss to tackle.

Wilhelm Wien

#8. Anyone can achieve something important. Contrary to popular belief, the key is not hard work, but finding the right thing to achieve.

Ernie J Zelinski

#9. If she had any sense at all, she'd clean out her desk and look for another job. Something safe and sane, like catching alligators or looking for land mines in Afghanistan.

Janet Evanovich

#10. If, as is the custom, I speak mainly about my own researches, I must say that I was fortunate in finding that not everything had yet been gleaned in the field of general thermodynamic radiation theory.

Wilhelm Wien

#11. Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

G.K. Chesterton