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“It was proved that no destruction took place, but that an exact equivalent of the energy of the lost molar motion appears as that of the molecular motion, or motion of the smallest particles of a body, which constitutes heat.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“For there is no such thing as perpetual Tranquillity of mind, while we live here; because Life itself is but Motion, and can never be without Desire, nor without Feare, no more than without Sense.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“In so far as matter may be conceived to exist in a purely passive state, it is, imaginably, older than motion.” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“For what is the Heart, but a Spring; and the Nerves, but so many Strings; and the Joynts, but so many Wheeles, giving motion to the whole Body, such as was intended by the Artificer?” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“However, some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.” Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
“America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion, and every movement seems an improvement.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“It seems safe to look forward to the time when the conception of attractive and repulsive forces, having served its purpose as a useful piece of scientific scaffolding, will be replaced by the deduction of the phenomena known as attraction and...” Thomas Henry Huxley, The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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