Velocity Quotes - Page 2

• When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

  Owen Barfield

  Progress, Increase, Certain

  Owen Barfield, Jeanne Clayton Hunter, Thomas Kranidas (1993). “A Barfield Sampler: Poetry and Fiction By Owen Barfield”, p.152, SUNY Press

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• Morality—like velocity—is relative. The determination of it depends on what the objects around you are doing. All one can do is measure one's position in relation to them; never can one measure one's velocity or morality in terms of absolutes.

  David Gerrold

  Determination, Morality, Relation

  David Gerrold (2014). “Starhunt: A Star Wolf Novel”, p.82, BenBella Books, Inc.

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• But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

  George Berkeley

  Mistake, Math, Understanding

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• The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the view that the heaven, sun, moon, stars, and in short all of the things on high are stationary, and that nothing in the world is in motion except the earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion. . . ."

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Stars, Moon, Axes

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• Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and controlled. The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.

  Henry Rollins

  Hero, Men, Dust

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• Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you over, the way it rushes you onward, a pebble turning in a brook. I've always been obsessed with where I'd go, and what I'd do, and how I would live. I've always harbored a desperate hope that I would make something of myself. Not then. Time stopped seeming so much like the thing that would transform me into something worthwhile and began to be inseparable from death. I spent my time merely waiting.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Waiting, Pebbles, Way

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• She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.

  Tom Robbins

  Water, Tears, Flow

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.6, Bantam

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• Love is implicit in every connection. It should be. Thus when absent it makes us insane. (You Shall Know Our Velocity)

  Dave Eggers

  Love Is, Insane, Connections

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• The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Lying, Astronomy, Spirals

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1920). “Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae ...”

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• Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That's it. That's really all technology for our entire history has ever done.

  Jack Dorsey

  Communication, Technology, Two

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• Excellence matters, and technology advances so fast that the potential for improvement is tremendous. So, since becoming CEO again, I've pushed hard to increase our velocity, improve our execution, and focus on the big bets that will make a difference in the world.

  Larry Page

  Technology, Differences, Focus

  "More glass from Google: CEO Larry Page gets transparent" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Density, Mass, Arcs

  Carl Friedrich Gauss (1965). “General investigations of curved surfaces”

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• Acid is not for every brain .... Only the healthy, happy, wholesome, handsome, hopeful, humorous, high-velocity should seek these experiences. This elitism is totally self-determined. Unless you are self-confident, self-directed, self-selected, please abstain.

  Timothy Leary

  Humorous, Self, Hopeful

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• If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought.

  Nikola Tesla

  Humanity, Secret, Genius

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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• The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced into discussions of the general curvature of space.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Distance, Data, Space

  Norriss S. Hetherington, Edwin Powell Hubble (1996). “Hubble's Cosmology: A Guided Study of Selected Texts”

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• Stroke followed stroke with the velocity of light. The movement of my hand was interrupted only by the act of changing colors.

  Carole Katchen

  Light, Hands, Color

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• So many of the properties of matter, especially when in the gaseous form, can be deduced from the hypothesis that their minute parts are in rapid motion, the velocity increasing with the temperature, that the precise nature of this motion becomes a subject of rational curiosity. Daniel Bernoulli, Herapath, Joule, Kronig, Clausius, &c., have shewn that the relations between pressure, temperature and density in a perfect gas can be explained by supposing the particles move with uniform velocity in straight lines, striking against the sides of the containing vessel and thus producing pressure.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Moving, Perfect, Curiosity

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• It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc², in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa.

  Albert Einstein

  Squares, Light, Average

  "Atomic Physics" by the J. Arthur Rank Organisation, Ltd, 1948.

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• The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

  Hans Christian von Baeyer

  Long Ago, Defining, Problem

  Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.135, Harvard University Press

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• They whirled past the dark trees, as feathers would be swept before a hurricane. Houses, gates, churches, hay-stacks, objects of every kind they shot by, with a velocity and noise like roaring waters suddenly let loose. Still the noise of pursuit grew louder, and still my uncle could hear the young lady wildly screaming, "Faster! Faster!"

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Dark, Past

  Charles Dickens (1838). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.339

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• The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium, you feel them and you see the velocity of the players.

  Joe Namath

  Football, Player, Games

  Interview with Beverly Keel, americanprofile.com. January 23, 2005.

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• He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.

  Douglas Adams

  Trying, Usual, Way

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Past, Years, People

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.3

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• ...(that) any general system of conveying passengers would ... go at a velocity exceeding ten miles an hour, or thereabouts, is extremely improbable.

  Thomas Tredgold

  Hours, Miles, Transportation

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• Can quantum mechanics represent the fact that an electron finds itself approximately in a given place and that it moves approximately with a given velocity, and can we make these approximations so close that they do not cause experimental difficulties?

  Werner Heisenberg

  Moving, Causes, Facts

  Werner Heisenberg (1985). “Gesammelte Werke”, Springer

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