Attraction Quote by Paul Laffoley

I met a guy who had the same theory and wrote a book about it. His name is Walter C. Wright Jr. His book…

— Paul Laffoley

“My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward.... 'Think what it must have been like for…

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same basic belief,…

— Paul Laffoley

“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his ‘general…

— Robert Charles Wilson

“Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics'…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

“He made imaginative leaps and discerned great principles through thought experiments rather than by methodical inductions based on experimental data. The theories that resulted…

— Walter Isaacson

Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it.

— Chaim Weizmann

“It is no valid objection that science as yet throws no light on the far higher problem of the essence or origin of life.…

— Charles Darwin

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known... but he really didn't understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919…

— Albert Einstein

“Albert Einstein was certainly the most important physicist of the twentieth century. Perhaps his greatest work was his discovery of general relativity, which is…

— Lee Smolin

Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity exists or…

— Paul Laffoley

“I often wonder what Einstein would have done in my position. At Peterson, I kept an Einstein poster in my room, the one that…

— Austin Grossman