Center of Mass Quotes

A tree falls the way it leans.

The same law takes place in a system, consisting of many bodies, as in one single body, with regard to their persevering in their state of motion or of rest. For the progressive motion, whether of one single body or of a whole system of bodies, is always to be estimated from the motion of the center of gravity.

Heavy is the root of light.

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

The walking of Man is falling forwards.

You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

Every tub sits on its bottom.

Your center of mass is a place you cannot visit but you always carry with you. Like memories, it is part of life's baggage.

Take hold of objects by their centres, not by their lines of contour... The contour accentuated uniformly and beyond proportion, destroys plasticity, bringing forward those parts of an object which are always most distant from the eye - namely its outlines.

I am certain that movement never lies. There is only one law of posture I have been able to discover - the perpendicular line connecting heaven and earth.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.