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The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

Fall, Science, Water, Heating, Corresponds

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Aspirations, Look, Look Up, Looks, Musical

Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.

Genuine, Hypotheses, Library, Numbers, Science, Value

The physiological combustion theory takes as its starting point the fundamental principle that the amount of heat that arises from the combustion of a given substance is an invariable quantity-i. e. , one independent of the circumstances accompanying the combustion-from which it is more specifically concluded that the chemical effect of the combustible materials undergoes no quantitative change even as a result of the vital process, or that the living organism, with all its mysteries and marvels, is not capable of generating heat out of nothing.

Life, Change, Independent, Nothing, Chemical, Heat

The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination of oxygen absorbed by blood corpuscles with the combustible constituents of the blood to form carbonic acid and water.

Blood, Chemical, Constituents, Essentially, Oxygen, Water

My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.

Action, Light, Manifestation, Object, Perfectly, Science

It's a very good thing for students also to be exposed to people who aren't film students or film scholars but who work in the world of film.

People, World, Students, Good

Nature has put itself the problem how to catch in flight light streaming to the earth and to store the most elusive of all powers in rigid form. To achieve this aim, it has covered the crust of earth with organisms which in their life processes absorb the light of the sun and use this power to produce a continuously accumulating chemical difference. . . . The plants take in one form of power, light; and produce another power, chemical difference.

Differences, Light, Powers, Streaming, Sun

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