Gravity Quote by Isaac Newton

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.”

— Isaac Newton

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they…

— Isaac Newton

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

— Michio Kaku

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

— Richard P. Feynman

Just as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in…

— Isaac Newton

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

— Isaac Newton

To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field…

— Alan Stern

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other.

— James Smithson

“planetary orbit, for example, is described quite simply as the response of a planet to the curvature of space in the vicinity of the…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The sun bends space around itself, and Earth does not turn around it because of a mysterious force but because it is racing directly…

— Carlo Rovelli

“I likewise thought—when I was solemnly first introduced to it at the age of thirteen—that “science” had fully explained the motions of the planets,…

— Peter Hitchens

Yet the widespread planetary theories, advanced by Ptolemy and most other astronomers, although consistent with the numerical data, seemed likewise to present no small…

— Nicolaus Copernicus