Quote by Thomas S. Kuhn

“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

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense…

— Laurence Sterne

“he made it his aim so to arrange the theory that, no matter how the choice was made, the phenomena of gravitation, so far…

— Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet…

— Roger Cotes

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

“Unable either to practice science without the Principia or to make that work conform to the corpuscular standards of the seventeenth century, scientists gradually…

— Thomas S. Kuhn

It is our nature to defy gravity, to transcend the limitations of the reasoning mind and connect with the realm of the mystical truth.

— Caroline Myss

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

The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without…

— Isaac Newton

“As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the…

— Frederick the Great

Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos.

— Mary Roach

“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