Both air and water being transparent and colourless fluids, their internal motions are not easily discovered by the sight, and when these motions are very slow, they make no impression whatever on any of our senses, consequently they cannot be detected by us without the aid of some mechanical contrivance:-- But where we have reason to think that those motions exist, means should be sought, and may often be found, for rendering them perceptible.英文原著 · 《ESSAYS-1》
And let me ask what you mean by those words 'left' and 'right'. I suppose it is your way of saying Northward and Southward."
"Not so," replied I; "besides your motion of Northward and Southward, there is another motion which I call from right to left."
KING. Exhibit to me, if you please, this motion from left to right. Nay, that I cannot do, unless you could step out of your Line altogether. Out of my Line? Do you mean out of the world? Out of Space? Well, yes.英文原著 · 《Flatland》
Who can tell into what involuntary revelations Brother Nepomucene may find himself drawn if he sets in motion the machinery of criminal proceedings? Can he set it in motion against himself without at the same time setting it in motion against you? Believe me, I wish for peace--I am a kindly man."英文原著 · 《Mauprat》
Upon the same account the spontaneous motion must be neither walking, nor flying, nor creeping; it is nevertheless a motion, but what that motion is it is not easy to conceive.英文原著 · 《Principles of Human Knowledge》
But, notwithstanding what has been said, I must confess it does not appear to me that there can be any motion other than relative; so that to conceive motion there must be at least conceived two bodies, whereof the distance or position in regard to each other is varied. Hence, if there was one only body in being it could not possibly be moved. This seems evident, in that the idea I have of motion doth necessarily include relation.英文原著 · 《Principles of Human Knowledge》
As to what is said of the centrifugal force, that it does not at all belong to circular relative motion, I do not see how this follows from the experiment which is brought to prove it. See Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, in Schol. For the water in the vessel at that time wherein it is said to have the greatest relative circular motion, hath, I think, no motion at all; as is plain from the foregoing section.英文原著 · 《Principles of Human Knowledge》
Motion to dismiss, motion to compel, motion to strike, motion to change venue, And we have another half dozen in the pipeline.美剧 · 《Suits》
If you don't make a motion to dismiss this-- I did file a motion to dismiss, but it doesn't matter, because Cahill filed subpoenas to depose you and your son-in-law first, and until those depositions happen, the court won't file on the motion.美剧 · 《Suits》
He's got the federal records and the witness-- I think a case in motion should stay in motion.美剧 · 《Billions》
The only thing worse than just going through the motions is not bothering to go through the motions.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Gravity, the laws of motion, the calculus, white light composed of all the colors of the rainbow. gravity, the laws of motion, the calculus, white light composed of all the colors of the rainbow.演讲 · 《Beauty, truth and ... physics ~ Murray Gell-Mann》