Temperature Perception Quotes

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.

Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

Does this feel warmer or colder?

No heating system can deliver perfectly uniform temperatures throughout a house, and drafts can magnify the perceived difference in temperatures. Try walking around with a thermometer.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

Francesca: It's still a bit cold yet. Michael: Never stopped John and me. Francesca: Yes, well, you're Scottish. Your blood circulates quite well half frozen.

Cold is a state of mind.

They've gotta stop reporting wind chill. That's nonsense. It really is. I don't know where they came up with it, why they came up with it, but it's a lie. They come on, "Well, it's 27 degrees today, but with the wind chill, it's minus 3." Well, then it's minus 3, asshole! I don't need to know what the weather was like if the conditions were perfect!

It's like how on certain days some people wear sweaters when other people can wear t-shirts and still feel comfortable - different reactions to the same temperature.

We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.

For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned.

If the iron is hot, I desire to believe it is hot, and if it is cool, I desire to believe it is cool.