Чтобы найти правильное правило, требовалось определенное воображение, и это воображение было предоставлено Галилеем. — It required a certain imagination to find the right rule, and that imagination was supplied by Galileo.

Открытие законов динамики, или законов движения, стало драматическим моментом в истории науки.

До Ньютона движение таких вещей, как планеты, было загадкой, но после Ньютона наступило полное понимание.

Даже небольшие отклонения от законов Кеплера, вызванные возмущениями планет, можно было вычислить.

Движения маятников, осцилляторов с пружинами и грузами и так далее - все это можно было полностью проанализировать после того, как были сформулированы законы Ньютона.

Так и с этой главой: до этой главы мы не могли рассчитать, как будет двигаться масса на пружине; тем более мы не могли рассчитать возмущения на планете Уран, вызванные Юпитером и Сатурном.

После этой главы мы сможем вычислить не только движение колеблющейся массы, но и возмущения на планете Уран, вызванные Юпитером и Сатурном!

Галилей сделал большой шаг вперед в понимании движения, когда открыл принцип инерции: если объект оставлен в покое, не потревожен, он продолжает двигаться с постоянной скоростью по прямой линии, если он изначально был движущимся, или продолжает стоять на месте, если он просто стоял на месте.

Конечно, в природе так не бывает, ведь если провести блок по столу, он остановится, но это потому, что он не предоставлен сам себе - он трется о стол.

You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.

A calm mind is good for our physical health but it also enables us to see things more realistically.

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else.

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean.

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.

The past history of our globe must be explained by what can be seen to be happening now. No powers are to be employed that are not natural to the globe, no action to be admitted except those of which we know the principle.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

None of us is as smart as all of us.

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.

To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring read a book.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

Never back down from a real challenge. They give the best lessons in life.

Chicago - a pompous Milwaukee.

People who end up with the good jobs are the proactive ones who are solutions to problems not problems themselves who seize the initiative to do whatever is necessary consistent with correct principles to get the job done.

A reader's own imagination is a far more powerful form of CGI than anything any movie can provide because it's unique. In your own imagination, you can enter all sorts of worlds, and they are unique to you because no other reader will interpret a book the same way.

When people meet me, and I'm generally pretty sociable, and I meet some definition of normal, they're almost surprised. And simultaneously disappointed.

I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.

Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it.

I remember the noise of the bells ringing at school as the effigy of Guy Fawkes we'd prepared earlier was carried out on a canvas stretcher, hoisted on to the huge bonfire and set alight. Then the revelry would begin. My school friends and I would all have sparklers we passed around, lighting one from another.

Sadly, it's much easier to create a desert than a forest.

I never regretted what I turned down.