Circular Motion Quotes:

I shall now recall to mind that the motion of the heavenly bodies is circular, since the motion appropriate to a sphere is rotation in a circle.

- Nicolaus Copernicus

topic: Circles, Mind, Body, Rotation, Bodies In Motion

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering... Now, let us acknowledge the wonder of our physical incarnation- that we are here, in these particular bodies, at this particular time, in these particular circumstances. May we never take for granted the gift of our individuality.

- Saint Augustine

topic: Gratitude, Stars, Ocean, Discovering Your True Self, Discovery In Life

I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.

- John Swartzwelder

source: John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”

topic: Crazy, Guy, Saws, Circular Motion

While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite say that the earth lies at the center, the philosophers of Italy, the so-called Pythagoreans, assert the contrary. They say that in the middle there is fire, and that the earth is one of the stars, and by its circular motion round the center produces night and day.

- Aristotle

topic: Circular Motion, Rotating

I proceeded to take that mitten full of the deadly yellow snow crystals and rub it all into his beady little eyes with a vigorous circular motion.

- Frank Zappa

source: Song: Nanook Rubs It

topic: Revenge, Eye, Yellow, Circular Motion, Mittens

I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world, then you enter the picture and you're in a different world (it's not the same as the one you live in, but recognizable as one you might live in). And then you're returned to your world with an enlarged sense of its possibilities.

- Frank Gohlke

topic: Different, World, Might, Circular Motion

If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

- Thomas Aquinas

source: "Commentaria in libros Aristotelis de caelo et mundo". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 1886.

topic: Would Be, Earth, Violent, Circular Motion