An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force. — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“A circle in a straight line is the mathematical symbol of miracle.” — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
The path isnt a straight line; its a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect… — Jack Henry Abbott Copy Share Image
“Expelled from the art institute for, among other reasons, drawing nudes as a single straight line, à la Cocteau, he was a… — Mark Lewisohn Copy Share Image
“Then if you don’t mind a suggestion—plan what you will do, and then set it aside until tomorrow,” Cole said. “You tend… — Dee Henderson Copy Share Image
Straight lines don't exist in the human form and are extremely rare in nature, so the human touch in the logo is… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
Progress is rarely a straight line. There are always bumps in the road, but you can make the choice to keep looking… — Kara Goucher Copy Share Image
Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines Lived twelve little girls in two straight lines In two straight… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
I deliberately disregarded the right angle and rationalist architecture designed with ruler and square to boldly enter the world of curves and… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Dunbar-Ortiz strips us of our forged innocence, shocks us into new awareness, and draws a straight line from the sins of our… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“Seeing into the future is not a straight line. You are given the choice of a hundred paths through a treacherous swamp.… — Cat Hellisen Copy Share Image
“With the palms zipping past and the big sun burning down on the road ahead, I had a flash of something I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state,… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
The crime which bankrupts men and states is job-work-declining from your main design, to serve a turn here and there. Nothing is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“It felt warm sitting around the dhuni. I felt connected to the sadhus, to the temple, and even to Shiva. Is this… — Terry Tarnoff Copy Share Image
“Footsteps from the stairwell startle him out of the past. He turns around as Emma's mother takes the last step into the… — Anna Banks Copy Share Image
I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“The interpretation of apparent long-distance action by means of continuously propagating effects was vigorously asserted by Isaac Newton. In his wake, the… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Tulliver had lived thirteen years with her husband, yet she retained in all the freshness of her early married life a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“To determine the truth or falsity of a statement you not only need to a set of special experiences, but you need… — Gary L. Hardcastle Copy Share Image
“Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in… — Edwin A. Abbott Copy Share Image
God is the Absolute Idea, a circle that returns upon itself, not a straight line projected indefinitely. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.” — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere. — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line. — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
The so called "progress," "time marching on," is not a straight line, but a pendulum. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Did you know? That the ruler was invented by an artist, because the hardest thing to draw is a straight line. — SdotHawkins Copy Share Image
In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines 74 lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image