Henry Beard Quotes

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

The fall of a given weight from a height of around 365 meters corresponds to the heating of an equal weight of water from 0° to 1°.

What goes up must come down.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

The law in question asserts, that the quantity of force which can be brought into action in the whole of Nature is unchangeable, and can neither be increased nor diminished.

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

Our annual school physics trip was always to Blackpool Pleasure Beach, as it's such a good example of Newtonian physics. You can learn about centrifugal force and Newton's first law from the roller coasters, and the Viking long boat is a giant pendulum. It's good for children to understand that science underpins all these brilliant things.

A point of rest alone explains motion.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

Momentum solves 80% of your problems.

There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic.

What goes up must come down. But don't expect it to come down where you can find it.

One thing I've learned over time is, if you hit a golf ball into water, it won't float.

Everything is energy in motion.

We're used to thinking of force as a stable phenomenon, but it has a cinematic variable, which is acceleration.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Energy is a very subtle concept. It is very, very difficult to get right.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision, to the releasing of a trigger.

Breaks like a ball falling off a pool table.

Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity.