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 (18171862)
“Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“Two children, all alone and no one by,
Holding their tattered frocks, throan airy maze
Of motion lightly threaded with nimble feet
Dance sedately; face to face they gaze,
Their eyes shining, grave with a perfect pleasure.”
—Laurence Binyon (18691943)
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