"Accelerative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to solar radiation is small at first, and the quantity of radiant energy it receives in unit of time cannot exceed that which falls upon its surface. But what is the effect of this energy? Not to produce a retardative reaction, but an accelerative response: for, in the enlarging of the leaf by growth, the plant opens for itself ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly |
