Relative Uniform Motion

Famous quotes containing the words relative, uniform and/or motion:

    “Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The maples
    Stood uniform in buckets, and the steam
    Of sap and snow rolled off the sugarhouse.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
    But in his motion like an angel sings,
    Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
    Such harmony is in immortal souls,
    But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
    Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)