Motions Quotes

160 quotes by 140 authors

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at… — Saint Augustine
A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw a child by studying the outlines… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions! — George W. Crane
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… — Francis Bacon
Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from… — Isaac Newton
Just as one can compose colors, or forms, so one can compose motions. — Alexander Calder
The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. — Louis Pasteur
God alone is the author of all the motions in the world. — Rene Descartes
A lover, when he is admitted to cards, ought to be solemnly silent, and observe the motions of his mistress. He must laugh when she… — Henry Fielding
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any… — Andreas Osiander
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got ahead better than… — Karl Kraus
You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference - to be of genuine consequence in the… — Werner Erhard
Yet is it possible in terms of the motion of atoms to explain how men can invent an electric motor, or design and build a… — Arthur Compton
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Since, then, there is no objection to the mobility of the Earth, I think it must now be considered whether several motions are appropriate for… — Nicolaus Copernicus
My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes… — Johannes Kepler
Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,… — Florence Nightingale
The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature,… — John Jay Chapman

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