Nikola Tesla Quotes

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.

If a thing moves, it lives.

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.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

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

Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.

What goes up must come down.

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

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

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

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

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

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.

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

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

Motion is the sign of life.

Not all speed is movement.

Physics has the cutest words.

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

What I need is to express my passion for life... It's movement I'm interested in, the life in me, the life in humanity.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

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

Friction is necessary for motion, labor necessary for birth.

I just believe that sometimes in life you're like a shark - you have to keep moving through water; otherwise, you'll die.

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.