Famous quotes containing the words rotation, period and/or relative:
“The lazy manage to keep up with the earth’s rotation just as well as the industrious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavour to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)