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Quotes About Liquids

Rocks are the key to Earth history, because solids remember but liquids and gases forget.
~ Walter Alvarez
Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes.
~ Wolfgang Ketterle
When we consider the fact that nearly three-quarters of the surface of the globe is covered by oceanic water, we begin to realise that the molecular scattering of light in liquids may possess an astronomical significance, in fact contribute in an important degree to the observed albedo of the earth.
~ C. V. Raman
When making any pureed soup, don't blend all the liquids and solids together at once. Hold back some liquid at first and use it to thin the soup as needed. You can always add more liquid, but there's not much you can do to fix a too-thin soup.
~ Claire Saffitz
Spiders don't chew. They send a special liquid into their prey. The prey's insides turn to mush. Then the spider sucks up its tasty lunch!
~ Julie Murphy
This weird behavior is a manifestation of quantum sync. All liquids become highly ordered when cooled to very low temperatures. Normally they freeze into a crystal. But the two isotopes of helium, helium-3 and helium-4, never solidify, at least not at ordinary pressures. They remain liquids all the way down to absolute zero.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
I don't love mixed drinks.
~ Rande Gerber
Aam AAM, noun [Chaldee for a cubit, a measure containing 5 or 6 palms.] A measure of liquids among the Dutch equal to 288 English pints.
~ Noah Webster
Water dissolves more substances than any other liquid, even acid.
~ Colum McCann
But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.
~ Hermann von Helmholtz
Did you see those airport security people? I think you could drive a tank past them, as long as it didn't contain any liquids.
~ Dave Barry
you do for shock? Hot liquids, blankets. Brandy.
~ Diana Gabaldon