“ So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature,… James Clerk Maxwell
“ In heated rooms, he often felt the outlines of his body, the border between him and the external world, grow disturbingly fuzzy. Ryū Murakami
“ Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. Christopher Buckley
“ I love to feel the temperature drop and the wind increase just before a thunderstorm. Then I climb in bed with the thunder. Amanda Mosher
“ In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between i… Josh Bazell
“ Outside, she thought that there ought to be a word for it: the air temperature that was perfectly neither hot nor cold. One degree lower, and she might have felt a faint misgiving about not having bro… Lionel Shriver
