Andrew Flintoff Quotes

If you're in a helicopter, and you hover, why does the Earth not come to you if it's round?

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent.

The earth, which by revolving and twisting round its axis with extreme velocity produces all the same results as would be produced if the earth were stationary and the heaven in motion...

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

For relaxation, I like to figure skate. Being on the ice and spinning and jumping, I feel very close to nature. In particular, I feel very close to Newton's laws of motion. On the ice, you can experience Newton's laws of motion in their purest, most elegant form.

Gravity wins over all other known forces.

It's not magic! It's physics. The speed of the turn is what keeps you upright. It's like a spinning top.

Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

Only the flowing water is pure and sweet. Only the spinning top and the moving bicycle do not fall over. Rest is not found in irregular and purposeless motion, nor is it stagnation; all real and firm rest is to be sought in harmonious action.

I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

The equatorial line is, in fact, the centre of atmospheric motion.

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion.

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.

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

A tree falls the way it leans.

I didn’t drift; I moved left just by standing still.