Chris Hardwick Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going to learn how to deal with very simple questions such as how a body falls due to the acceleration of gravity.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

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

The great weight of the ship may indeed prevent her from acquiring her greatest velocity; but when she has attained it, she will advance by her own intrinsic motion, without gaining any new degree of velocity, or lessening what she has acquired.

The universe is composed of matter, and, as a system, is sustained by motion. Motion is not a property of matter, and without this motion the solar system could not exist.

You got to have a lot of mass to be able to produce a lot of ground reaction force, to function off of the ground, to press off of the ground.

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.

Momentum solves 80% of your problems.

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

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.

I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.