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Quotes About Temperature

A.J. finds that he cannot make eye contact with either his daughter or Lambiase. It is twenty-nine degrees, but shame is keeping him warm.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The size of the pieces of the cleaning pie - time, chemistry, mechanical, and temperature - are constantly changing in size to conform to the type of soil to be cleaned.
~ Brian Bluhm
About 90 percent of the past five hundred thousand years have been colder than today, and the world's climate has been in transition from cold to warm or back again for about three quarters of that time.
~ Brian M. Fagan
Most active winter bugs can supercool their bodies to a range of–6 to–12 degrees Celsius, going lower by producing more glycerol and dropping the water content in their bodies.
~ Bruce Barcott
Human biochemistry works at its best at around 98 degrees F, and while adaptation to living in and visiting different environments is possible, from the Mojave to the moon, adaptation to altered body core temperatures is not possible.
~ Buck Tilton
Of the two environmental temperature extremes, heat and cold, the human body is better adapted to deal with heat. With virtually hairless skin filled with abundant sweat glands, powered by a cardiovascular system of marvelous endurance, humans function well when the mercury rises. You are not, however, a foolproof design. Overheating can ruin your day—and your life.
~ Buck Tilton
Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.
~ Herman Melville
What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
~ Ian Mcewan
You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber. Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one, and when it's cold, the other way around.
~ Peter Zumthor
I find that the hot yoga is sort of a false thing, so your body temperature goes up and you can stretch and you can injure yourself a little bit easier than if you work yourself into... if you heat yourself up.
~ Tricia Helfer
Somehow he managed to look cool despite the heat. It made Clary want to smack him.
~ Cassandra Clare
When subjects go to sleep later in their body temperature cycles, they actually sleep less, even though they have been awake longer.
~ Steven H. Strogatz
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
It doesn't matter what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
~ Steven Wright
If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.
~ Steven Wright
If it's zero degrees outside today and it's supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
~ Steven Wright
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
~ Steven Wright
If heat rises, heaven must be hotter than hell.
~ Steven Wright
What's the difference between hot and cold cereal? Why can't all cereals get along?
~ Ean Rodriguez
there has been a dramatic decrease in birth and survival rates of caribou calves. It seems that rising temperatures have changed the growing patterns of plants that are the source of critical energy for caribou calves, as well as for their mothers during reproduction and lactation.
~ Naomi Klein
Also it was hot as Satan's tit, to put it in the most colorful terms possible
~ Naomi Novik
The future looks rosy for West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne viruses that follow it to the New World. That's because the future is going to be warm and wet. Carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are raising the average temperature in the United States.
~ Carl Zimmer
y dejó correr el agua, probando la temperatura
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Kahnawake November 1704 Temperature 44 degrees "They won't let you see her," said Ruth flatly. "Now tell us, Mr. Williams, why has ransom not come? Do people have short memories or no memory? Why do they not rescue us? I get so angry sometimes." Sometimes! thought Mercy.
~ Caroline B. Cooney