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• A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

  Tina Fey

  Baby, School, Boss

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• I think it is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our soufflés.

  Nicholas Kurti

  Science, Thinking, Reflection

  "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen". Book by Harold McGee, March 20, 2007.

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• Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.

  Sally Schneider

  Vegetables, Might, Rooms

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• Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Believe, Elderly, Ignorant

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• The five-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade

  James Hansen

  Mean, Years, Lasts

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• Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Night, Gone

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• For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, and the realm that makes their lives possible literally melts away.

  Sylvia Earle

  Home, Ice And Snow, Bears

  "Save the Polar Bears, Save Ourselves" by Sylvia Earle, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 20, 2012.

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• It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly.

  Ralph Merkle

  Yield, Looks, Acres

  "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 1 - July 31, 2000.

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• We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.'

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Reality, Psychics

  "The Heart of Matter". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1950.

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• It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect . . . .The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms.

  Lord Kelvin

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

  "The Life of Lord Kelvin, Volume 2" by Silvanus Phillips, (2005 edition, p. 1093), 1910.

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• An instant-read thermometer is your best bet for making sure that meat and fish are cooked to the proper temperature.

  Bobby Flay

  Meat, Thermometers, Instant

  Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter

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• One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.

  Jack Gould

  Depth, Doe, Baths

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• If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of solar energy, the air temperature would rise, and the oceans would swiftly evaporate into the atmosphere as they sustained a rolling boil. This would be bad.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ocean, Air, Atmosphere

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• The mathematical thermology created by Fourier may tempt us to hope that, as he has estimated the temperature of the space in which we move, me may in time ascertain the mean temperature of the heavenly bodies: but I regard this order of facts as for ever excluded from our recognition. We can never learn their internal constitution, nor, in regard to some of them, how heat is absorbed by their atmosphere. We may therefore define Astronomy as the science by which we discover the laws of the geometrical and mechanical phenomena presented by the heavenly bodies.

  Auguste Comte

  Moving, Mean, Order

  Auguste Comte (1853). “The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte”, p.138

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• If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.

  Raymond Carver

  Writing, Heart, Character

  Raymond Carver (2016). “Where I'm Calling From”, p.14, Random House

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• If it were only a few degrees, that would be serious, but we could adapt to it. But the danger is the warming process might be unstable and run away. We could end up like Venus, covered in clouds and with the surface temperature of 400 degrees. It could be too late if we wait until the bad effects of warming become obvious. We need action now to reduce emission of carbon dioxide.

  Stephen Hawking

  Running, Clouds, Waiting

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• There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.

  Richard Davisson

  Running, Science, Differences

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• My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs!

  Sean Connery

  Girl, Drinking, Wine

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• All this argument is the temperature going up or not, it's absurd. Of course it's going up. It has gone up since the early 1800s, before the Industrial Revolution, because we're coming out of the Little Ice Age, not because we're putting more carbon dioxide into the air.

  Reid Bryson

  Air, Ice, Age

  "Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics" by Marc Morano, www.epw.senate.gov. May 15, 2007.

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• The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire.

  James Tiptree Jr.

  Talking, Mind, Way

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• If you have a temperature rise, if it's a problem in one area, it's beneficial in another area. But sea level is the real 'bad guy,' and therefore they [The IPCC] have talked very much about it. But the real thing is, that [sea level rise] doesn't exist in observational data, only in computer modeling.

  Nils-Axel Morner

  Real, Sea, Data

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• Quickly capping 363 oil well fires in a war zone is impossible. The fires would burn out of control until they put themselves out... The resulting soot might well stretch over all of South Asia... It could be carried around the world... [and] the consequences could be dire. Beneath such a pall sunlight would be dimmed, temperatures lowered and droughts more frequent. Spring and summer frosts may be expected... This endangerment of the food supplies... appears to be likely enough that it should affect the war plans.

  Carl Sagan

  Summer, Spring, War

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• I think in my car somebody is playing with the pressure and the temperatures.

  Pastor Maldonado

  Thinking, Car, Pressure

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• I expect to retire to a fine-grained heaven where the temperatures are always consistent, where the images slide before one's eyes in a continual cascade of form and meaning.

  Ansel Adams

  Eye, Heaven, Slides

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• My heart/ is whatever temperature a heart is/ in a man who doesn't believe in heaven.

  Bob Hicok

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Bob Hicok (2013). “Elegy Owed”, p.2, Copper Canyon Press

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