"[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ..."

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Lord Kelvin

#Heat Quotes #Theory Quotes #Mathematical Quotes

“It's no use blaming anyone now.”
“Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time,”
“We dance with women in groups, but it is very rare that you have a partner that is a woman. The dance world is very macho - woman, boy, always couples, and it's very standardized.”
“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.”
“The Prayer of Examine produces within us the priceless grace of self-knowledge. I wish I could adequately explain to you how great a grace this truly is. Unfortunately, contemporary men and women simply do not value self-knowledge in the same way that all preceding generations have. For us technocratic knowledge reigns supreme. Even when we pursue self-knowledge, we all too often reduce it to a hedonistic search for personal peace and prosperity. How poor we are! Even the pagan philosophers were wiser than this generation. They knew that an unexamined life was not worth living.”
“Today, Lan Lan is one of my favourite classical pianists.... Years ago I had a great admiration for Arthur Rubinstein but I have no doubt that Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin were also fantastic piano players - though there is no way to listen to them when they were performing.”
“Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.”
“For misdirected love, the attainment of its object is, indeed, the best cure; but it cures as the guillotine cures headache.”

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