Quotes About Motion

We can depend on the world being a perpetual surprise in perpetual motion.

Stone and sea are deep in life Two unalterable symbols of the world Permanence at rest And permanence in motion Participants in the power that remains

We are energy, and like all energy, we are in constant change.

imagine a line drawn through the main line of action—be it a moving car, a football field, or the eye line of a conversation.

The slide is tennis.

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.

I think so many things look like a penalty in slow motion.

If you want a robot to maneuver aggressively, it has to be small. As you scale things down, the 'moment of inertia' - the resistance to angular motion - drops dramatically.

My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk's sake.

D'autant que nous avons cher, estre, et estre consiste en mouvement et action.

Le monde n'est qu'une balançoire perpétuelle. Toutes choses y balancent sans cesse.

At rest, we know that its circumference is equal to p times the diameter. Once the merry-go-round is set into motion, however, the outer rim travels faster than the interior and hence, according to relativity, should shrink more than the interior, distorting the shape of the merry-go-round. This means that the circumference has shrunk and is now less than p times the diameter; that is, the surface is no longer flat. Space is curved.

The popularity of perpetual motion machines is widespread. On an episode of The Simpsons, entitled "The PTA Disbands," Lisa builds her own perpetual motion machine during a teachers' strike. This prompts Homer to declare sternly, "Lisa, get in here…in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

why doesn't the universe spin?

el tiempo se frena más dentro de un cohete cuanto más rápido se mueve.

And there is no such thing as absolute zero, the temperature at which all motion stops. (Even as we approach it, atoms continue to move slightly, which is called the zero-point energy.)

By stablishing an acquaintance with Lucie, I too had set my destiny in motion; but I did not lose sight of it. Though we didn't meet very often, at least our mettings were fairly regular, and I knew she was capable of waiting several weeks and then greeting me as if we'd seen each other the day before

y, si caminaba, caminaba sólo porque el alma, llena de intranquilidad, exige movimiento y no es capaz de permanecer en el mismo sitio, porque cuando no se mueve empieza a doler terriblemente.

Uno decide algo, ni siquiera sabe muy bien cómo, y esa decisión se mantiene luego por su propia inercia.

ideology was like a set of enormous wheels at the back of the stage, turning and setting in motion wars, revolutions, reforms. The wheels of immunology turn without having any effect upon History.

andava, e se andava era porque a alma, quando a inquietação a invade, exige movimento, não pode ficar no lugar, por quando fica imóvel a dor fica terrível

I'm always trying to do something active because I love it.

I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.