conservation of energy
Noun
Meaning
the fundamental principle of physics that the total energy of an isolated system is constant despite internal changes
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As we can not give a general definition of energy, the principle of the conservation of energy signifies simply that there is something which remains constant.
The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it.
- Mr.Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? - Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.
By laying down the relativity postulate from the outset, sufficient means have been created for deducing henceforth the complete series of Laws of Mechanics from the principle of conservation of energy (and statements concerning the form of the energy) alone.
It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
Life should be built on the conservation of energy.