Velocity Quotes

91 Velocity quotes by 79 unique authors

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
I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’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
Find your speed, maintain your velocity, keep it up, keep it consistent, and stay in the pocket. — Sonny Barger
But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding... — George Berkeley
And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely… — George Berkeley
"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means… — Neal Stephenson
A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products. — Wolfgang Ostwald
Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Unalaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its… — Corey Ford
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in… — Charles Dickens
If he (The New York Taxi Driver) talked to me, he might lose his concentration, which would be very bad because the taxi has some… — Dave Barry
For these two years I have been gravitating towards your doctrines, and since the publication of your primula paper with accelerated velocity. By about this… — Thomas Huxley

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