Quotes About Velocity

We think velocity is new, change is new, and this vast tumult and wave of fear is new. And we are wrong. There has never been firm ground for our lives and our only balm has been a forgetfulness of the changes we have endured.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum

The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness.

Rapid motion through space elates one; so does notoriety; so does the possession of money.

As companies get bigger, they tend to slow down. It's a universal law.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Transhumanism encapsulates a long-lived error among the headliners of science: in a world without a destination, we cannot even break ground on our Tower of Babel, and no amount of rush and hurry on our part will change that. That we are going nowhere is not a curable condition; that we must go nowhere at the fastest possible velocity just might be curable, though probably not. And what difference would it make to retard our progress to nowhere?

They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.

Touch' is a multi-faceted concept, reflecting the different types of receptors. The simplest are free nerve endings which detect pain and changes in temperature; slightly more complex are Merkel's tactile cells (which detect pressure); followed by Grandry bodies, which consist of two to four tactile cells and detect movement (velocity); and the lamellated Herbst corpuscles (similar to Vater-Pacinian corpuscles in mammals), which are sensitive to acceleration.

if he maintained that speed and went outside, the ship would appear to him as if it wasn't moving at all since he would be moving at the same velocity. But going outside at a high velocity was risky. He'd expose himself to gamma radiation and the threat of micrometeoroids. Getting hit by a tiny rock particle would likely be fatal. Victor couldn't take that risk. Not with so much at stake. It would

Imagine trying to hold the tail of a comet as it blazes across the heavens. It's burning your hands, eating you up, but there's no malice in it; a comet can't possibly know or care about you. You will sacrifice all you are or ever will be for that comet because it suffuses every inch of your skin with a sweet itch you cannot catch, and through its grace you discover velocities you never dreamt possible.

A person "at rest" on the equator is actually spinning with the earth's rotation at 1,040 miles per hour and orbiting with the earth around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour.

Time cannot be absolutely defined, and there is an inseparable relation between time and signal velocity." More

The special theory of relativity that Einstein developed in 1905 applies only to this special case (hence the name): a situation in which the observers are moving at a constant velocity relative to one another—uniformly in a straight line at a steady speed—referred to as an "inertial reference system.

You cannot separate the social life of urban spaces from the velocity of the activities happening there.

A lot of people leave Arkansas and most of them come back sooner or later. They can't quite achieve escape velocity.

She'd come at us with maximum maternal velocity. She hadn't held back a thing, not a single lick of her love.

Two lengths has every day, Its absolute extend – And area superior By hope or heaven lent. Eternity will be Velocity, or pause, At fundamental signals From fundamental laws.

Place has ceased to be of importance now that power no longer lives at a fixed address. ... Power's location is less important than its velocity through temporary obstacles. The speed of a tank ramming through the baricade of history.

Being at rest becomes merely a special case of uniform motion-it is just motion at zero speed.

It wasn't until I went to college and I got my first motorcycle that I understood the thrill of speed.

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.