Gravity Quotes

509 quotes by 381 authors

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered?… — Roger Cotes
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains… — Galileo Galilei
When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any… — Lord Byron
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is… — Charles Darwin
One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys… — Robert M. Pirsig
The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the… — Anita Shreve
How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to… — Joseph Sobran
I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable… — David Knopfler
I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the… — Amy Klobuchar
Sandeep Jauharâ€™s Doctored is a passionate and necessary book that asks difficult questions about the future of medicine. The narrative is gripping, and the writing… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we… — Jonathan Gottschall
To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' — Carl von Clausewitz
What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity. — Lorenzo di Bonaventura
I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live… — Kevin A. Ford
Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as… — Seth MacFarlane
They often say, "What's the point in astrology if you can't change your destiny?" Well, it's true that you can't change your destiny, but still… — Kedar Joshi
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity. — Josh Billings
In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is… — Marianne Moore
The gravity is the first thing which you don't think — Albert Einstein

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