
Les Loix du Mouvement et du Repos, déduites d'un Principe Métaphysique (1746)
Aviation, Geography, and Race (1939)
Context: The forces of Hannibal, Drake and Napoleon moved at best with the horses' gallop or the speed of wind on sail. Now, aviation brings a new concept of time and distance to the affairs of men. It demands adaptability to change, places a premium on quickness of thought and speed of action.
Military strength has become more dynamic and less tangible. A new alignment of power has taken place, and there is no adequate peacetime measure for its effect on the influence of nations. There seems no way to agree on the rights it brings to some and takes from others.
Les Loix du Mouvement et du Repos, déduites d'un Principe Métaphysique (1746)
Accord de différentes loix de la nature qui avoient jusqu’ici paru incompatibles (1744)
Mazeppa http://readytogoebooks.com/MZP21.htm (1819), stanza 9.
Space, Time and Gravitation (1920)
Context: It is of interest to inquire what happens when the aviator's speed... approximates to the velocity of light. Lengths in the direction of flight become smaller and smaller, until for the speed of light they shrink to zero. The aviator and the objects accompanying him shrink to two dimensions. We are saved the difficulty of imagining how the processes of life can go on in two dimensions, because nothing goes on. Time is arrested altogether. This is the description according to the terrestrial observer. The aviator himself detects nothing unusual; he does not perceive that he has stopped moving. He is merely waiting for the next instant to come before making the next movement; and the mere fact that time is arrested means that he does not perceive that the next instant is a long time coming.<!--p.26
Playboy interview (May 1995)
Context: My point is that you cannot force social change at a speed that it cannot go. Social change is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Deep social change takes time. And slowly the culture is changing. The MTV generation is far more tolerant, and that tolerance is growing.
“Change happens at the speed of trust. (cf. The SPEED of Trust, 2008)”
First Things First (1994), Disputed
First Iowa Coop. v. Power Comm'n., 328 U.S. 152, 188 (1946).
Judicial opinions
As quoted by Teles of Megara, fr. 2, On Self-Sufficiency