Ed Parker Quotes

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

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

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

A point of rest alone explains motion.

The universe really is motion & nothing else.

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

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.

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion

If a thing moves, it lives.

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.

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.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

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.

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.

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.

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

He who is ignorant of Motion, says Aristotle , is necessarily ignorant of all natural things. ...Not only was he entirely in the dark respecting the Laws, he was completely wrong in his conception of the nature of Motion. ...He thought that every body in motion naturally tends to rest.

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.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Falling is one of the ways of moving.

Let's hope the first comes first.

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

Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.