Plutarch Quotes

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

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.

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

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

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

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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.

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

I have lots of power in my hands.

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

Newton's great generalization, which he called the "third law of motion," was that "Action and reaction are always equal to each other;" and that law has been one of the most pregnant of all truths about the mystery of force;--one of the brightest windows through which modern eyes have looked into the world of Nature.

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

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

Every body persists in a state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces having impact upon it.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!

I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

War knows no law except that of might.

Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith.

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!