Moment Inertia

Famous quotes containing the words moment and/or inertia:

    Then for a moment all there was was size,
    Confusion, and a roar that drowned the cries
    He raised against the gods in the machine.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say “I know” instead of “I am learning,” and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for scepticism and activity.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)