Belief 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 father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so…

— Paul Laffoley

“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

I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is…

— Isaac Newton

Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.

— Douglas William Jerrold

“By the time I began my study of physics in the early 1970s, the idea of unifying gravity with the other forces was as…

— Lee Smolin

Einstein wrestled with a problem back before we even knew the universe was expanding, and he was looking for a way to keep the…

— Adam Riess

“Newton, as we have said, was the promoter of a Design Argument based upon the precision and universality of the laws of motion and…

— John D. Barrow

I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

— Antony Garrett Lisi

Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the…

— Richard P. Feynman

“People in love -with nurturing, attentive non-movie-star parents- they would never invent gravity. Nothing except deep misery leads to real success.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

Experimentally, we now have demonstrated that Einstein's theory is right in strong gravitational fields. That's important to a lot of people.

— Rainer Weiss