Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes

Falling is one of the ways of moving.

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

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

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

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

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

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

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.

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.

A point of rest alone explains motion.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

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.

Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don't realize it until you don't have it anymore.

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.

As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.

You think Earth's gravity is really something when you're climbing the stairs. But, as far as physics goes, it is a pipsqueak, infinitesimal, tiny little effect.

I know all we're doing is travelling without moving. Speed freak faster than a speedin' bullet, slow down. If I don't, I might just lose it, locked up. You've got me honey, locked up under heavy brakin', yeah. You know I've got to hang on, drive too fast, I might be last.

Vivre est une chute horizontale. Life is a horizontal fall.

When you are falling --- Dive!