Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot quotes

Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The production of motion in the steam engine always occurs in circumstances which it is necessary to recognize, namely when the equilibrium of caloric is restored, or (to express this differently) when caloric passes from the body at one temperature to another body at a lower temperature.”
-- Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot

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“Fundamentalists who say they are not going to pay any attention to the charts are like a doctor who says heâ€™s not going to take a patientâ€™s temperature.”

Source : "Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders". Book by Jack D. Schwager, 1989.
“Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.”
“The challenge to be the best is what drives me and to just improve my body every day.”

Source : "Q&A: Packers' Aaron Rodgers talks yoga, social media, Super Bowls". Interview with Mike Vandermause, www.usatoday.com. June 12, 2014.
“We forgot we have Holy Body not less than our Holy Spirit.”
“Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.”

Source : "My 12 pairs of legs". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2009.
“The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.”
“Pre-heat the oven? Really? If I was the sort of person who planned ahead, I wouldn't be eating this Totino's Party Pizza in the first place.”
“Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.”
“I'm telling you, until I shaved my head, I never realized how much heat is lost through the top of the head. I walk out in winter and it feels like I have an ice pack on my head. Unbelievable.”
“I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me.”

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