Quotes About Force

This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward.

Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.

But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

All things happen by virtue of necessity.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

Science is not about what's true or what might be true, science is about what people with originally diverse viewpoints can be forced to believe by the weight of public evidence.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

Mary Anning [is] probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.

And nature must obey necessity.

There is an art, a science to gaining power. There is a natural force or inclination in all of our beings to accumulate power. The problem that we come into is conditioning.

The magnetic force is animate, or imitates a soul; in many respects it surpasses the human soul while it is united to an organic body.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Life is a physics problem. Bodies in motion.