6 sentences with 'motionless'
Example sentences and phrases with the word motionless and other words derived from it.
• « Oddly enough, it was not until the 20th century that science really considered the idea that the universe had a beginning. Before then, the cosmos was conceived of as eternal and unchanging, and stars were thought to hang motionless in space. »
• « Hawking appears totally passive and motionless, except for his facial expressions and the slight, almost imperceptible movements of his fingers, which operate the computer. »
• « Aristotle in the 3rd century B.C. placed the motionless Earth at the centre of the Universe and within a great sphere. Another great celestial sphere enveloped it and held within it, as if embedded, all the stars. This last sphere rotated as a whole, a hypothesis that allowed Aristotle to explain the translation of the stars and, at the same time, the constant distance between them. »