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Quotes About Mass

E = MC^2: Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.
~ Albert Einstein
Even in the information age, trust is not a mass commodity that can be acquired; it must be handcrafted in your soul.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
A few early farmers conserved the soil - George Washington was one - but they were stray oddities. A few pioneers had naturalistic interests, but any revelation of such interests branded the holder of them as being peculiar or even undemocratic. The mass rule then, as now, was: Conform and be dull.
~ J. Frank Dobie
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream. What I did see on Twitter was a potential for mass publication; it's a mainstream consumer broadcasting device. It transforms customers and companies. You have to be transparent or you fail.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Usenet is the last uncensored mass medium.
~ Steve Crocker
Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.
~ Cosmo Gordon Lang
Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes
~ Murray Edelman
Have you noticed, " said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents, ' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
~ David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
For the mass prevention of disease, mass education is a key weapon.
~ T.R. Reid
Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
The unindividualized, shifting mass of everyone else would be a screen, distributed throughout the city, onto which he'd project the movie of his uninterrupted imagination. Because he'd appear to, and be able to pretend he was, but never actually be a part of the mass, maybe he'd gradually begin to feel a kind of needless intimacy, not unlike being in the same room as a significant other and feeling affection without touching or speaking.
~ Tao Lin
When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.
~ Susumu Tonegawa
I am a commercial hero, and I will never leave that genre. And having an image of a mass hero, I will spoil the whole script in the wake of being too experimental.
~ N. T. Rama Rao, Jr.
If we could bottle your luck, we'd have a weapon of mass destruction on our hands.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
~ Charlie Chaplin
You must act with all energy. Mass searches. Execution for concealing arms.
~ Vladimir Lenin
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.
~ Carl Jung
Everybody tends to merge his identity with other people at the speed of light. It's called being mass man.
~ Marshall McLuhan
This was governed entirely by Newtonian mechanics. Each piece of the moon attracted every other piece more or less strongly depending on its mass and its distance. It could be simulated on a computer quite easily. The whole rubble cloud was gravitationally bound. Any shrapnel fast enough to escape had done so already. The rest was drifting around in a loose huddle of rocks. Sometimes they banged into one another. Eventually they would stick together and the moon would begin to re-form.
~ Neal Stephenson
From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything
~ Neal Stephenson
Like a couple of peasants huddled together in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Jack and Eliza performed their role in the Mass and then departed, leaving no sign that they'd ever been there, save perhaps for an evanescent ripple in the coursing tide of quicksilver.
~ Neal Stephenson
It had a quaint twentieth-century feel and made Nell oddly nostalgic for the days when dangerousness was a function of mass and bulk. The passives of that era were so fun to watch, with their big, stupid cars and big, stupid guns and big, stupid people.
~ Neal Stephenson
I don't think a Drop Top can can reach an orbit this high, can it? Dinah asked. Sean's coming alone. It's some kind of special one-passenger model -- the extra mass is being used for propellant. And then what? He just goes to an airlock and knocks on the door? Basically, yes, Larz said. What will they do? Tell him to go away?
~ Neal Stephenson
If all mass has gravity, does all gravity have mass? We don't know. Maybe there's nothing wrong with the matter, and it's the gravity we don't understand.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson