Candles can't burn in a vacuum, therefore, probably sparklers wouldn't either.

I bring you into a room. I give you a candle, some thumbtacks and some matches.

Chad

Candle

All these candles, so many thousands of candles people had lit in tribute to this.

I like candlelight.

Attach the candle to the wall so the wax doesn't drip onto the table.

Stop the use of incense and candles.

And I say to you, Your job is to attach the candle to the wall so the wax doesn't drip onto the table. Now what would you do?

This is called the candle problem.

The candle went out instead of having been put out.

When the lights went out, Tom lit a candle.

Did you remember that you were supposed to buy candles?

Because the truth is, when they light their candles at ours, there is twice as much light available for everyone.

There is a single candle flickering in the center by an arrangement of reflective glasses, it reflects into infinity in all directions.

Jefferson said, When they come and light their candles at ours, they gain light, and we are not darkened.

Pitch black. Not a candle, not a flashlight.

Tom blew out all the candles on the cake.

So, imagine we look at a familiar object, just a candle in a holder, and imagine that we want to figure out what it is made of.

Somebody, some people and I saw somebody kind of make the motion over here some people have a great idea where they light the match, melt the side of the candle, try to adhere it to the wall.

And the cozy candles that many participants will light, which seem so natural and environmentally friendly, are still fossil fuels and almost 100 times less efficient than incandescent light bulbs. Using one candle for each switched off bulb cancels out even the theoretical CO2 reduction using two candles means that you emit more CO2.

Now many people begin trying to thumbtack the candle to the wall.

Thousands of candles illuminated the church during the ceremony.

You render it down. You make a candle, etc. etc.

But for the real candle problem, you don't want to be looking like this.

You blow out candles on top of a birthday cake.

Electricity made candles of little use in our life.

But it can also have this other function, as a platform for the candle. The candle problem.

In other words, the average person on the average wage could not afford a candle in 1800.

Everybody in this room is dealing with their own version of the candle problem.

He's got candles out, he's got flowers in the middle and he's trying to figure out where to put the plates and the glasses.

Instead of preparing a dinner by candlelight, she put her boyfriend up for auction on eBay.

And the miners in the early part of the last century worked, literally, in candlelight.

Efficiency requires sharing research as widely as possible as soon as it is available. Thomas Jefferson compared knowledge to candles when one is used to light another, it does not diminish the light of the first.

Government finances health care research because improved medicines are a public good. The resulting knowledge benefits everyone by stopping epidemics and limiting the economic and human toll of widespread illness.

As he who lights his candle at mine receives light without darkening me.

There was not a flashlight, not a lantern, not a candle pitch black.

Back in 1800, you'd have had to work six hours to earn a candle that could burn for an hour.

Now the United States has a particularly important role to play in this to keep our education system globalized, to keep our education system open to students from all over the world, because our education system is the candle that other students come to light their own candles.

Mound up those four plates with vegetables and then open up the very best bottle of Burgundy you have, light the candles and celebrate it.

She survived, immigrated to America and, 60 years later, sent me off to light Sabbath candles on that table bearing the swastika.

Now I want to tell you about an experiment using the candle problem, done by a scientist named Sam Glucksberg, who is now at Princeton University in the U.S.

And for candle problems of any kind, in any field, those if then rewards, the things around which we've built so many of our businesses, don't work.

ATHENS On Valentine s Day, countless couples will celebrate romance by candlelight. On the same day, one billion women and men worldwide will stand up to shine a light on the darker side of gender relations.

The use of this technique now places supernovae among the most accurate of the standard candles, suitable for use as distant probes measuring features of the early universe.