Air Pressure Quotes:

The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally.

- Viktor Schauberger

topic: Air, Pressure, Scientist, Air Pressure

All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.

- Otto Lilienthal

source: "Der Vogelflug als Grundlage der Fliegekunst". Book by Otto Lilienthal; English edition: Birdflight As The Basis of Aviation (1911), 1889.

topic: Air, Pressure, Overcoming, Air Pressure

I could tell you that in my entire coaching career I have never talked to any player, staff member about football air pressure. That is not a subject that I have ever brought up.

- Bill Belichick

source: Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

topic: Football, Player, Air, Staff Members, Air Pressure

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.

- Teju Cole

source: Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

topic: Light, Air, Psychics, Luxury Hotels, City Parks

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?

- Eckhart Tolle

source: Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.31, Penguin

topic: Spiritual, Believe, Reality, Vocal Cords, Vowels

Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

- Buzz Aldrin

topic: Air, Atmosphere, Mars, Air Pressure