HEAT, n.Heat, says Professor Tyndall, is a mode Of motion, but I know now how he's proving His point but this I know --hot words bestowed With skill will set the human fist a-moving, And where it stops the stars burn free and wild.Crede expertum --I have seen them, child. --Gorton Swope
Quotes about tyndall (2 Quotes)
Tyndall declared that he saw in Matter the promise and potency of all forms of life, and with his Irish graphic lucidity made a picture of a world of magnetic atoms, each atom with a positive and a negative pole, arranging itself by attraction and repulsion in orderly crystalline structure. Such a picture is dangerously fascinating to thinkers oppressed by the bloody disorders of the living world. Craving for purer subjects of thought, they find in the contemplation of crystals and magnets a happiness more dramatic and less childish than the happiness found by mathematicians in abstract numbers, because they see in the crystals beauty and movement without the corrupting appetites of fleshly vitality.