An interesting quote from Count Rumford

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Here is an interesting quote...

"The audour of my mind is so forgivable that every object that interests me engages my whole attention, and is pursued with a degree of indefatigable zeal which approaches madness." - Count Rumford to Picket (1800)

Count Rumford was a scientist who carried out a number of important experiments on the nature of Heat, he believed that heat was motion. Count Rumford was a bitter rival of Anton Lavoisier who wrongly believed that heat was a fluid, and oddly enough Count Rumford married Marie-Anne Lavoisier after Anton Lavoisier died.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Rumford