The fastest meteoroids move at about 42 kilometers per second.

Light travels at a velocity of 186,000 miles per second.

Modern computers carry out ten to the ninth power (10^9) operations per second.

The new comet was picked up by the instrument because it is releasing huge amounts of water, about 1.3 tons per second.

The Jet d'Eau fountain shot 500 liters of water per second to a height of 140 meters as a string quartet played, and a crowd cheered.

Spinoza saw, and I think with great profundity, that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second per second." Free will for us—that is, when we feel desire, when we are conscious of wanting to do what we do—may be even for us an illusion.

The velocity of light is about 186,000 miles per second.

It's not that I dislike horror movies per se. I just think many of them are poorly done.

Belief in God is not evil per se.

It's only six pence per second.