#speeds

If there is a small rocket on top of a big one, and if the big one is jettisoned and the small one is ignited, then their speeds are added. ↗

— Hermann Oberth

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I have two speeds, nothing and full pelt. ↗

— Andre Rieu

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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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My friends say I have two speeds: fast and blistering. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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As order exponentially increases, time exponentially speeds up. ↗

— Ray Kurzweil

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While we are postponing, life speeds by. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

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Anyone with a smart phone is a potential eyewitness cameraman capturing and transmitting stories at speeds that turn Reuter photos and traditional reporting into, well... yesterday's news. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

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Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. ↗

— Antony Hewish

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