"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."

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Source : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

Bernard M. Oliver

#Moving Quotes #Light Quotes #Energy Quotes

“I want to offer a word of encouragement to authors: You have to feel called to the message of your book enough that you want people to get that message. When you get to that place, your passion goes through the roof, and then the other stuff happens.”
“Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.”
“The ache for anything is a thick dust in the heart.”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.95, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“I feel like a ghost wandering in a world grown alien. I cannot cast out the old way of writing and I cannot acquire the new. I have made an intense effort to feel the musical manner of today, but it will not come to me.”

Source : "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music". Book by Sergei Bertensson and Jay Leyda, p. 351, 2002.
“Political analysts are saying that as a candidate, Donald Trump is 'a totally unqualified nuisance.' In other words, he is a legitimate contender for the Republican nomination.”
“Discipline. Honour. Respect. This is why I appreciate MMA.”
“What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in elephant time.”

Source : Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press
“The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.”

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