Quotes by Peter Guthrie Tait

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“Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost of a claim to be thought a good fencer.To my vision his...”
— Peter Guthrie Tait
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“It is very desirable to have a word to express the Availability for work of the heat in a given magazine; a term for that possession, the waste of which is called Dissipation. Unfortunately the exc...”
— Peter Guthrie Tait, Sketch of Thermodynamics
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“If it were possible for a metaphysician to be a golfer, he might perhaps occasionally notice that his ball, instead of moving forward in a vertical plane (like the generality of projectiles, such a...”
— Peter Guthrie Tait
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