Motion

There are as many types of motion or change as there are meanings of the word 'is'.

— Motion

The fulfilment of what exists potentially, in so far as it exists potentially, is motion.

— Motion

In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.

— Motion

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

— Motion

If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless.

— Motion

Newton... not only found a precise mathematical use for concepts like force, mass, inertia; he gave new meanings to the old terms space, time, and motion, which had hitherto been unimportant but were now becoming the fundamental categories of men's thinking.

— Motion

The motions of the heavenly bodies could be charted according to Ptolemy just as correctly as according to Copernicus.

— Motion

Something in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover…

— Motion

Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

— Motion

The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

— Motion

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

— Motion