Recoil/recoil - Momentum Energy and Impulse

Famous quotes containing the words recoil, energy and/or impulse:

    Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930)

    I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.
    Mao Zedong (1893–1976)

    Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is mysterious and calculated to awaken scientific curiosity in the intercourse with God, and it [is] a problem quite analogous to that of theology.
    Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)