"In thermodynamics as well as in other branches of molecular physics , the laws of phenomena have to a certain extent been anticipated, and their investigation facilitated, by the aid of hypotheses as to occult molecular structures and motions with which such phenomena are assumed to be connected. The hypothesis which has answered that purpose in the case of thermodynamics, is called that of "molecular vortices," or otherwise, the "centrifugal theory of elasticity."

Source : William John Macquorn Rankine (1869). “A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine”, p.32

William John Macquorn Rankine

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“I started doing radio commercials for Kmart when I was 4. They had to splice all my consonants together because I couldnt talk very well. But these jobs helped my mother and me put food on the table. It took the two of us working.”
“True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!”

Source : FaceBook post by Andrew Wommack Ministries from Jul 14, 2012
“I have always had the feeling that organic chemistry is a very peculiar science, that organic chemists are unlike other men, and there are few occupations that give more satisfactions [sic] than masterly experimentation along the old lines of this highly specialised science.”
“I listened to the wind bury winter; and when I tasted his grace, his grace had no name; only, night became something else in his presence, as though darkness had a soul, here, swaying to heartbeats roaring.”

Source : Marjorie M. Liu (2008). “The Iron Hunt”, p.52, Penguin
“Sex is the most important sort of adult play. If you can't relax here you never will”

Source : Alex Comfort (1986). “The Joy of Sex”, Pocket
“It's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”
“A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six,”

Source : "The Merchant". Interview with Nick Paumgarten, www.newyorker.com. September 20, 2010.
“Chaste is she whom no one has asked.”

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