Motion Quotes

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Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

Leonardo da Vinci

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

A man whose blood
Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
The wanton stings and motions of the sense.

William Shakespeare

Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye.

William Shakespeare

Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in this also imitated, that it can make an Artificial Animal. For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs, the beginning whereof is in some principal part within; why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

I recognize without hesitation that judges do and must legislate, but they can do so only interstitially; they are confined from molar to molecular motions.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward.

Leonardo da Vinci

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

This mental activity, at first involuntary under the pressure of illness and suffering, gradually became second nature and led me finally to recognize that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment. Our bodies are of such complexity of structure, the motions we perform are so numerous and involved and the external impressions on our sense organs to such a degree delicate and elusive, that it is hard for the average person to grasp this fact. Yet nothing is more convincing to the trained investigator than the mechanistic theory of life which had been, in a measure, understood and propounded by Descartes three hundred years ago.

O, teach me how you look, and with what art You sway the motion of Demetrius' heart."-Helena

William Shakespeare

I can well appreciate, Holy Father, that as soon as certain people realise that in these books which I have written about the Revolutions of the spheres of the universe I attribute certain motions to the globe of the Earth, they will at once clamour for me to be hooted off the stage with such an opinion.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Science seeks perpetual motion. She has found it: it is Science herself.

But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will.

William Shakespeare

"Thus, my friends," said Barbicane, "all motion suddenly stopped produces heat. And this theory allows us to infer that the heat of the solar disc is fed by a hail of meteors falling incessantly on its surface. They have even calculated - " "Oh, dear !" murmured Michel, "the figures are coming."

The poet presents the imagination with images from life and human characters and situations, sets them all in motion and leaves it to the beholder to let these images take his thoughts as far as his mental powers will permit. This is why he is able to engage men of the most differing capabilities, indeed fools and sages together. The philosopher, on the other hand, presents not life itself but the finished thoughts which he has abstracted from it and then demands that the reader should think precisely as, and precisely as far as, he himself thinks. That is why his public is so small.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.

Henry David Thoreau

The have-his-carcase, next to the perpetual motion, is vun of the blessedest things as wos ever made.

Sam Weller

Charles Dickens

To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order.

George Washington

Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite, constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion.

Albert Einstein

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.

Nicolaus Copernicus

She looks a sea Cybele, fresh from ocean,
Rising with her tiara of proud towers At airy distance, with majestic motion,
A ruler of the waters and their powers.

Till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion.

Benjamin Franklin

The final cause, then, produces motion through being loved.

Ax:100 Every thing doth naturally persevere in yt state in wch it is unlesse it bee interrupted by some externall cause, hence...[a] body once moved will always keepe ye same celerity, quantity & determination of its motion.