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)

    “Thus for each blunt-faced ignorant one
    The great grey rigid uniform combined
    Safety with virtue of the sun.
    Thus concepts linked like chainmail in the mind.”
    —Thom Gunn (b. 1929)

    “till disproportion’d sin
    Jarr’d against natures chime, and with harsh din
    Broke the fair musick that all creatures made
    To their great Lord, whose love their motion sway’d
    In perfect Diapason, whilst they stood
    In first obedience, and their state of good.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)