James C. Maxwell Quotes

What goes up must come down.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

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

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

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its prey, it is because of timing.

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.

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

It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

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.

… a word carries far--very far--deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

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

The pink ball is a bit different. I don't think it moves as much through the air.

Anytime you hit a curve, or you hit on the side of the wall, you hit against the side of the sled. We're taking four to five, sometimes six or seven Gs on our body every time we go down the track. And then the crashing.

I don't feel my opponent's power. I feel something happening when I get hit, but I don't feel power.