Quotes on Thermometers

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

(On the energy radiated by the Sun) It's four hundred million million million million watts. That is a million times the power consumption of the United States every year, radiated in one second, and we worked that out by using some water, a thermometer, a tin, and an umbrella. And that's why I love physics.

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society.