Velocity Quotes

• I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

  Tom Felton

  Clever, Thinking, Three

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• I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

  Justin Verlander

  Balance, Use

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• The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Looks, Infinite

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• An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Life Is, Busy, Silent

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.77, Vintage

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• Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

  Charles Babbage

  Light, Order, Increase

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures ... Second edition enlarged”, p.31

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• In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Diversity, Movement, Body

  Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, baron de, Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu (2005). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.2, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket.

  Sonny Barger

  Pockets, Speed, Consistent

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• Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

  Dave Eggers

  Rocks, Here I Am, Hurricanes

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• Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital velocity and correspondingly stronger returns on invested capital.

  Jeff Bezos

  Stronger, Return, Higher

  "A sign outside Amazon's new Australian warehouse is a reminder of how Jeff Bezos crushes his rivals" by Tony Yoo, www.businessinsider.com.au. November 2, 2017.

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• In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

  Charles Babbage

  Important, Machines, Use

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.26

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• We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.

  Johannes Peter Muller

  Opportunity, Space, Light

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• After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its calculations will find written on a sheet of paper in letters of fire that energy is equal to the mass multiplied by the square of the velocity of light. The new kings of the world will live tranquilly for a long time, confining themselves to devouring each other and being parasites among each other on a cottage industry scale.

  Primo Levi

  Love, Kings, Science

  "Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" by Carl C. Gaither, Springer Science & Business Media, (p. 101), January 5, 2012.

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• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  Harold Brodkey

  Perfect, Contentment, Entering

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• The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance, particularly in military affairs.

  Charles Babbage

  Military, Moving, Men

  Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.25

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• By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

  Johannes Stark

  Ions, Giving, Atoms

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• Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.

  Hermann von Helmholtz

  Fall, Air, Wind

  Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.106, University of Chicago Press

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• And from a poise at this station the plane may swoop down, at great disadvantage if close to the back of the wave, at various slopes and directions till it cuts into the air that is being raised by the face of the following wave, which again enables it to resume its velocity.

  Lawrence Hargrave

  Cutting, Air, May

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• A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move.

  Johannes Stark

  Moving, Rays, Owing

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• Now, the velocity of wave propagation can be seen, without the aid of any mathematical analysis, to depend on the elasticity of the medium and its density; for we can see that if a medium is highly elastic the disturbance would be propagated at a great speed.

  Albert A. Michelson

  Would Be, Density, Analysis

  "Light Waves and Their Uses". Book by Albert A. Michelson. Published by The University of Chicago Press, pp. 23-25, 1903.

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• I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

  Jamie Moyer

  Realizing, Late, Grows

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• The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fall, Vacuums, Argument

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.5

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• Industrial man—a sentient reciprocating engine having a fluctuating output, coupled to an iron wheel revolving with uniform velocity. And then we wonder why this should be the golden age of revolution and mental derangement.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Iron, Age

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• It is through many lifetimes of shifting the aggregate of the self that one finally reaches a point of maximum velocity whereby one can snap off the circle completely and move into freedom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Self, Circles

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• 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

  Moving, Independent, Light

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• The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

  William Falconer

  Degrees, Weight, May

  William Falconer (2012). “Falconers Marine Dictionary (1780)”, p.252, BoD – Books on Demand

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