Earth Quote by Plutarch

Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world. He could have stood…

— Neil Gaiman

Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved…

— Ptolemy

“The physics of gravity was not reserved only for large celestial objects to efficiently exert.”

— Gayendra Abeywardane

Archimedes, that he might transport the entire globe ... demanded only a point that was firm and immovable; so also, I shall be entitled…

— Rene Descartes

“Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?”

— Dr. Emmett Brown

“The earth is a huge ball which nothing holds up in space except its own motion and magnetism, and we conscious things who occupy…

— Saul Bellow

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

— Johannes Kepler

“From a crude rocket in a weedy field to Explorer and beyond, the human race had broken the bonds of gravity to which they…

— Stuart A. Kallen

“We on earth do not feel either the gravitational field of the sun or the centrifugal force caused by the earth's motion around the…

— Steven Weinberg

It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because…

— Aristotle

“… for it is very probable, that the motion of gravity worketh weakly, both far from the earth, and also within the earth: the…

— Francis Bacon

“Gravity is a myth. In reality the earth sucks.”

— A.V. Roe