Quotes about Inertia

Aristotle had discovered only half the principle of inertia—that a body at rest remains at rest unless moved by another—but not the other half—that a body in motion remains in motion unless acted on by another.

True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Authentic Christianity has a horror of the pessimism of inertia. It is pessimist, profoundly pessimist in the sense that it knows that the creature comes from nothingness, and that all that issues from nothing essentially tends of itself to return to nothing: but it's optimism is incomparably deeper than it's pessimism; for it knows that the creature comes from God, and all that comes from God tends to return to Him.

We are all swept on by the torrent of things grown so familiar that they cast no shade...

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the same as he was set on staying still, like it aint the moving he hates so much as the starting and the stopping.

What he was now seeing was the street lonely, savage, and cool. That was it: cool; he was thinking, saying aloud to himself sometimes, "I better move. I better get away from here." But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

Earth Defense Alliance ships were outfitted with reverse-engineered alien technology, including a Trägheitslosigkeit Field Generator, which created a small inertia-cancellation field around a spacecraft, by "harnessing the aligned spin of gyromagnetic particles to alter the curvature of space-time" or something.

Habit is a great deadener.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

It also meant that whenever a body is not acted on by any force, it will keep on moving in a straight line at the same speed.