Speed Of Light Quotes

• Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

  Howard Nemerov

  Travel, Science, Journey

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov”, p.345, University of Chicago Press

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• Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Science, Light

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.622, Pan Macmillan

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• If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• Everybody at the speed of light tends to become a nobody.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Light, Speed

  "On McLuhan: Forward Through the Rearview Mirror". Book by Frank Zingrone and Marshall McLuhan (p. 101), 1997.

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• Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

  Terry Pratchett

  I Hate You, Science, Dark

  "Criminal Minds: Conflicted". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Today, almost all-current technologies put the speed of light to work.

  Paul Virilio

  Technology, Light, Today

  Source: ctheory.net

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• If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one’s hat keeps blowing off.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humorous, Science

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared

  Albert Einstein

  Light, Energy, Body

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.58, St. Martin's Press

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• I arise today
  Through the strength of heaven:
  Light of sun
  Brilliance of moon
  Splendor of fire
  Speed of lightning
  Swiftness of wind
  Depth of sea
  Stability of earth
  Firmness of rock.

  Saint Patrick

  Nature, Moon, Fire

  "Christian Spirituality: Origins to the Twelfth Century". Book by Bernard McGinn, Jean Leclercq, John Meyendorff, 1986.

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• Ever wonder what the speed of lightning would be if it didn't zigzag?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Lightning

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• Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing.

  Byron Katie

  Writing, Light, Mind

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• On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Love, Light, Sound

  Joseph Brodsky (2013). “Watermark: An Essay on Venice”, p.47, Penguin UK

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• The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

  Stendhal

  Beautiful, Art, Memories

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• The speed of light sucks.

  John Carmack

  Light, Speed

  "The Egos At Id". Interview with Marc Laidlaw, www.wired.com. August 1, 1996.

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• Light is one of the most important factors in photography.

  Laura Gilpin

  Photography, Light, Important

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• Angels are 'beings of light' and therefore travel at the speed of light.

  Margaret Neylon

  Angel, Light, Helping

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• At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but the faster you go, the worse it is--space begins to become abrasive. When you begin to approach the speed of light, hydrogen atoms become cosmic-ray particles, and they will fry the crew. ...So 60,000 kilometers per second may be the practical speed limit for space travel.

  Isaac Asimov

  Two, Hydrogen Atom, Space

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• We are all made of flesh, of matter. And at the end, this matter is dissolved in light, and transformed into energy. It’s the Einstein formula. Energy is nothing but matter that is moving at the speed of light, squared

  Vittorio Storaro

  Moving, Light, Energy

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• Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.

  Robert Breault

  Time, Men, Light

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• Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.

  Dave Barry

  Ocean, Light, Doe

  Dave Barry (1996). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, Crown Pub

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• Time, we know, is relative. You can travel light years through the stars and back, and if you do it at the speed of light then, when you return, you may have aged mere seconds while your twin brother or sister will have aged twenty, thirty, forty or however many years it is, depending on how far you traveled. This will come to you as a profound shock, particularly if you didn't know you had a twin brother or sister.

  Douglas Adams

  Sister, Time, Brother

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.706, Pan Macmillan

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• In 5 billion years, the expansion of the universe will have progressed to the point where all other galaxies will have receded beyond detection.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Years, Expansion, Conclusion

  YouTube Channel "Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science"/"'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009", www.youtube.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Focus on a few key objectives ... I only have three things to do. I have to choose the right people, allocate the right number of dollars, and transmit ideas from one division to another with the speed of light. So I'm really in the business of being the gatekeeper and the transmitter of ideas.

  Jack Welch

  Creativity, Keys, Top Management

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• E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. The original statement is: If a body gives off the energy L in the form of radiation, its mass diminishes by L/c2. Ist die Tragheit eines Korpers von Seinem Energieghalt Abhangig? 1905

  Albert Einstein

  Light, Giving, Energy

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