mechanics quotes

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

You have to look for teachers. If you want to be a mechanic, go hang out with mechanics.

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name.