Gertrude Stein Quotes

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction, or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction.

What goes up must come down.

Every body continues in its state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, except insofar as it doesn't.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

A moving body whose motion was not retarded by any resisting force would continue to move to all eternity.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

If you move something 10 pounds through space and then stop suddenly, there's a little overshoot. When you transfer weight from one leg to another, there's a certain way that it happens.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

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.

Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist.

It is indeed a law of politics as well as of physics, that a body in action must overcome a body at rest.

As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction.

In order to lift a certain object from the ground, we have to use energy. But then to sustain it at that level, we have to keep on adding energy, or otherwise, the object falls to the ground. It's exactly the same thing with the sound.

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

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

Momentum solves 80% of your problems.

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

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

Energy Is Conserved.