Velocity Quotes - Page 4

• I started thinking about how life is a lot like getting pushed out of a plane. You didn't ask to be here, none of us did. But we're all careening through space towards an eventual end that no one's gonna be able to put off. That's the only thing that's definite, this impact. So I started to think about how a lot of us fall at an incredible velocity, and it's over in the blink of an eye.

  Frank Iero

  Fall, Eye, Thinking

  Fuente: indientry.com

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• The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motions up to a certain point; and in order to determine the state of the system of these great bodies in past or future centuries, it suffices for the mathematician that their position and their velocity be given by observation for any moment in time.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Distance, Moving, Science

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• ¡El mismo Ser que formó el insecto, cuya existencia sólo se discierne con un microscopio, y dotó a esa mota invisible de un sistema de conductos y otros órganos para realizar sus funciones vitales, creó la enorme masa del planeta mil trescientas veces mayor que nuestra tierra, y lo lanzó en su curso alrededor del sol, y el cometa, girando con una velocidad que lo llevaría alrededor de nuestro globo en menos de dos minutos de tiempo, y sin embargo girando a través de un espacio tan prodigioso que tarda cerca de seis siglos en rodear el sol!

  Henry Brougham, 1er Barón Brougham y Vaux

  Dios, Dos, Espacio

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" por Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 274), 1895.

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• What appears to be the established order of present-day civilization is actually only the inert but spectacular momentum of a high velocity vehicle whose engine has already stopped functioning.

  José Argüelles

  Order, Civilization, Growth

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• Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Miracle, Active, Extraordinary

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.311, Grove Press

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• From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything is discussed in our world. But the democratic system, as if it were a given fact, untouchable by nature until the end of time, we don't discuss that.

  José Saramago

  Garbage Disposal, Our World, Jam

  Jose Saramago's intervention in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, February 1992.

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• What's the orbital velocity of the moon?

  Terry Pratchett

  Moon, Sam Vimes

  Terry Pratchett (2002). "Night watch", Doubleday UK

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• Todo es finito en el presente; e incluso lo finito es infinito en su velocidad de huida hacia la muerte. Pero en Dios no hay nada finito... En una noche de terremoto construye mil años de moradas placenteras para el hombre. Sobre la tristeza de un niño, a menudo levanta de los intelectos humanos cosechas gloriosas que no podrían haber sido de otro modo.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Night, Men, Years

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• Big whorls have little whorls
  Which feed on their velocity
  And little whorls have lesser whorls,
  And so on to viscosity.

  Lewis Fry Richardson

  Science, Atmosphere, Littles

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• I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.

  Susan Jane Gilman

  Ignorance, Complicated World, Students

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• Cada vez más, me siento arrastrado a regañadientes hacia una fuerte corriente horizontal, que es un lugar donde el tiempo se mueve a una velocidad tan alta, que incluso nuestra respiración se ve obligada a acelerarse sólo para que los seres humanos podamos sobrevivir. Y siempre he creído que es en nuestra lenta exhalación donde reside el sentido de esta profunda energía espiritual. En un mundo que se mueve tan rápido, con el crecimiento de la tecnología y la información, de alguna manera me siento inclinado a moverme contra esta corriente, en busca de lo que podría significar estar conectado no sólo espiritualmente, sino también verticalmente.

  Akram Khan

  Danza, Espiritual, Tiempo

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• We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Uniforms, Dimensions

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or water, it gets slowed down. It no longer travels with the fundamental velocity of light c. And that's the way to think of the generation of mass.

  Peter Higgs

  Pensar, Gafas, Luz

  "Meet Peter Higgs". CERN Video, July 2004.

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• If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all other galaxies running away from him at velocities proportional to their distances from the observer.

  George Gamow

  Running, Distance, Science

  George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity.

  Bill Gates

  Change, Quality, Ifs

  "Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy". Book by Bill Gates, 1999.

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• When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear... also very suggestive... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.

  H. R. Giger

  Beautiful, Brain, Looks

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• Jinetes de sangre es una novela como nunca antes habías leído: en parte western y en parte terror y cien por cien dulce emoción. Además, es vívida y trepidante. No podía dejar de leerla.

  T. Jefferson Parker

  Dulce, Sangrienta, Vívida

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• El atributo más formidable de la tentación es su creciente poder, su acelerada relación de velocidad. Cada acto de repetición aumenta el poder, disminuye la resistencia. Es como la salida de las aguas: donde puede ir una gota, puede ir un río. Quien cede a la tentación, se somete a la ley de la caída de los cuerpos.

  Horace Mann

  Caída, Ceder, Ley

  Horace Mann (1861). "Doce Sermones: Delivered at Antioch College", p.184

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• I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a new era in society will commence from the moment that aerial navigation is familiarly realised. . . . I feel perfectly confident, however, that this noble art will soon be brought home to man's convenience, and that we shall be able to transport ourselves and our families, and their goods and chattels, more securely by air than by water, and with a velocity of from 20 to 100 miles per hour.

  George Cayley

  Arte, Hogar, Hombres

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• Estando en mi puerta, oí la descarga de un arma, y en cuatro o cinco segundos de tiempo, después de la descarga, los pequeños disparos vinieron traqueteando alrededor de mí, uno o dos de los cuales golpearon la casa; lo que demuestra claramente que la velocidad del sonido es mayor que la de una bala de cañón.

  Benjamin Banneker

  Gun, Doors, Two

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• As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is again reduced to statics. Although it is is very much in order that in gradual training of science and in the instruction of the individual the easier precedes the more difficult, the simple precedes the more complicated, the special precedes the general, yet the min, once it has arrived at the higher standpoint, demands the reverse process whereby all statics appears only as a very special case of mechanics.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Simple, Order

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• From a certain temperature on, the molecules 'condense' without attractive forces; that is, they accumulate at zero velocity. The theory is pretty, but is there some truth in it.

  Albert Einstein

  Zero, Science, Molecules

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• Un catalizador es una sustancia que altera la velocidad de una reacción química sin aparecer en los productos finales.

  Wolfgang Ostwald

  Ciencia, Nomenclatura, Finales

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• I think herd mentality is a good thing overall. Because if every sheep had to figure out the velocity of the wolf and their personal risk, that would take forever.

  Neal Barnard

  Thinking, Sheep, Forever

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and she plunged toward the floor. Instinctively she pulled her arms and legs in, keeping her eyes squeezed shut. The cord pulled taut and she rebounded, flying back up before falling again. As her velocity slowed, she opened her eyes and found herself dangling at the end of the cord, about five feet above Jace. He was grinning. 'Nice', he said. 'As graceful as a falling snowflake.

  Cassandra Clare

  Nice, Fall, Eye

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.1259, Simon and Schuster

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