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)

    “subways, rivered under streets
    and rivers . . . in the car
    the overtone of motion
    underground, the monotone
    of motion is the sound
    of other faces, also underground—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)