Velocity Quotes

91 Velocity quotes by 79 unique authors

I may be expediting the attainment of an object that will in time be found of great importance to mankind; so much so, that a… — George Cayley
The most formidable attribute of temptation is its increasing power, its accelerating ratio of velocity. Every act of repetition increases power, diminishes resistance. It is… — Horace Mann
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity,… — T. Jefferson Parker
When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a… — H R Giger
If the expansion of the space of the universe is uniform in all directions, an observer located in anyone of the galaxies will see all… — George Gamow
The way that the background fields generates mass is rather like the way in which when light passes through a transparent medium like glass or… — Peter Higgs
When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis. — Owen Barfield
More and more, I am pulled reluctantly towards a strong horizontal current, which is a place where time is moving at such high velocity, that… — Unknown Author
Iâ€™m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than Iâ€™d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University,… — Susan Jane Gilman
Velocity is one thing, but the thing that worries me is my ball-strike ratio is about 1-to-1. — Trevor Hoffman
[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month out, at an average velocity… — Unknown Author
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble
The outstanding feature, however, is the possibility that the velocity-distance relation may represent the de Sitter effect, and hence that numerical data may be introduced… — Edwin Powell Hubble
He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he… — Douglas Adams
The game is choreographed; it is mental, it is physical, it is a battle. People can feel those hits when they are in the stadium,… — Joe Namath
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… — Lawrence Hargrave
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus asserts, holds the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity. — Charles Babbage
People often mistake technology for a static picture. It's less like a picture and more like a movie. It's the velocity of technology innovation that… — Elon Musk
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more… — Swami Vivekananda

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