Quotes about gravity

Isaac Newton -

He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God but he who really thinks has to believe in God.

Vikrmn - Guru with Guitar

Happiness is.. rising in LOVE in spite of gravity falling is old fashioned.

Brandon Boyd -

No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

Shaun David Hutchinson - We Are the Ants

Popularity is teenage heroin.

Danail Hristov - The End of the Jesus Era

Life continues even if no one has proven to us the shape and size of the Earth, even if no one has informed us about the composition of air and the depth of sky.We will not float in weightlessness simply because we have not read the lesson on gravity.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Without sound,There would be no music.And without music,There would be no life.And without a life force,There would be no matter.But it does not matter -Because what is matter,If there is no light?

Dave Barry -

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

James Anderson - The Never-Open Desert Diner

History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSEWithout the orchestra of the universe,There would be no ether. And without its instrumentationBy the ether, There would be no waves. And without any waves, There would be no sound. And without sound, There would be no music. And without music, There would be no life. And without a life force, There would be no matter. But it does not matter - Because what is matter, If there is no light?

Akshay Vasu -

We always become weaker when our soul gets into a stronger desire to own another. Like the way, our knees gets weaker when we see into their eyes. And the way, our hearts and minds defy every law of gravity and make us feel light and float into the infinity. The way, our soul bonds to theirs and becomes stronger. The way, their touch feels like thousands of stars bombarding together ripping us out of our senses and reality. Filling every void inside us, and how everything seems so right. Like a

Paul Baxter - The Day our Gravity Reversed

Doesn’t he look just like a ring wraith?” she said thoughtfully. “Are you kidding?” replied Cathy, “I most certainly won't be carol singing at your door this Christmas if you've got one of those ugly things hanging on it!” “No, from Lord of the Rings,” said Sue impatiently. “I'm sorry,” snorted Cathy, “I don't watch pornographic material." “Have you never read a book?!” Sue snapped. “It's about a small man who travels through dangerous lands to drop a ring into a volcano, it's a classic.” “Does

Vishwanath S J -

Your brain is an accelerating gravity free zone. While Intelligence leverages it, Intellectuality erodes it!

Erik Pevernagie -

Lightness and weightiness are both linked to a philosophy of life. They are choices in life. Heaviness can be the embodiment of a sense of responsibility, the expression of maturity, the result of profound meditation or the emanation of a search for meaning in life. Weightiness, however, may also lead to a feeling of oppression, when it is felt as a burden, an unbearable burden. Then time has come to let loose and things can finally lose their gravity. ( "The unbearable heaviness of being" )

Pushpa Rana - Just the Way I Feel

For a couple of days he was nice and I was on cloud number 9,damn they don’t teach how to come down from there instead leave us to gravity.

Kelly Link - Stranger Things Happen

Marriage has affected the laws of gravity. We will now revolve around each other. You will exert gravity on me, and I will exert gravity on you. We are one another's moons. You are holding onto my feet with both hands, as if otherwise you might fall right off the bed. I think I might float up and hit the ceiling, splat, if you let go. Please don't let go.

Dan Price -

I never want to make screw-you money like the rest of the financial services industry.

Anita Shreve - The Pilot's Wife

The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.

Shaun David Hutchinson - We Are the Ants

No doesn't mean to Marcus what it means to those without money and a car.

Neil Gaiman - The Kindly Ones

I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a law, rather than one of a number of suggested options.

Derek Landy - Death Bringer

Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

CIRCLES OF LIFEEverythingTurns,Rotates,Spins,Circles,Loops,Pulsates,Resonates,AndRepeats.CirclesOf life,Born fromPulsesOf light,VibrateToBreathe,WhileSpiralingOutwardsForInfinityThroughThe lensOf time,And intoA seaOf starsAndLucidDreams.Poetry by Suzy Kassem

Eric John Mancini -

Space is like liquid/water, but space has no friction. Water has a density. The planets have a density. The galaxies are like different vortexes and the gravitational pull is caused by the pull of the vortex. The vortex spins faster in the center and slower on the top/outside. So that's why gravitational pull is different on other planets/moons Density dictates where you fall in the galaxy/vortex and there are many vortexes throughout the universe. Theory.

Christophe Galfard - and Beyond

Mankind has uncovered two extremely efficient theories: one that describes our universe's structure (Einstein's gravity: the theory of general relativity), and one that describes everything our universe contains (quantum field theory), and these two theories won't talk to each other.

Kedar Joshi -

They often say, “What’s the point in astrology if you can’t change yourdestiny?”. Well, it’s true that you can’t change your destiny, but still it helpsknowing about gravity.

Neil deGrasse Tyson - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among the mammals, a sub-branch would evolve frontal lobes and

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Sand and Stars

When I opened my eyes, I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with outstretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver. But I did not fall. From nape to heel I discovered myself bound to earth. I felt a sort of

Curtis Tyrone Jones -

Sometimes we must gravitate towards madness before we can levitate on greatness.

Matshona Dhliwayo -

If you blame gravity for falling in love, even God has the right to laugh at you.

Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys

His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.

Robert G. Ingersoll - Some Mistakes of Moses

At present, the successful office-seeker is a good deal like the center of the earth; he weighs nothing himself, but draws everything else to him. There are so many societies, so many churches, so many isms, that it is almost impossible for an independent man to succeed in a political career. Candidates are forced to pretend that they are catholics with protestant proclivities, or christians with liberal tendencies, or temperance men who now and then take a glass of wine, or, that although not m

Deyth Banger -

Madness is like gravity, you just need to push it...

K.C. Cole - Sympathetic Vibrations: Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life

The earth doesn't move backward (very much) when you walk only because it's much more massive than you are.

Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Law

The next question was — what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people answered this problem by saying that there were angels behind them beating their wings and pushing the planets around an orbit. As you will see, the answer is not very far from the truth. The only difference is that the angels sit in a different direction and their wings push inward.

Ian Stewart - Calculating the Cosmos: How Mathematics Unveils the Universe

Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates.

Neil deGrasse Tyson -

A bullet fired level from a gun will hit ground at same time as a bullet dropped from the same height. Do the Physics.

Charles Lyell - Volume 3

It must have appeared almost as improbable to the earlier geologists, that the laws of earthquakes should one day throw light on the origin of mountains, as it must to the first astronomers, that the fall of an apple should assist in explaining the motions of the moon.

Michio Kaku -

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

China Miéville - Kraken

He was back in the water, not braving but frowning, synchronised swimming, not swimming but sinking, toward the godsquid he knew was there, tentacular fleshscape and the moon-sized eye that he never saw but knew, as if the core of the fucking planet was not searing metal but mollusc, as if what we fall toward when we fall, what the apple was heading for when Newton's head got in the way, was kraken.

Arthur C. Clarke - 2010: Odyssey Two

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.

John Couch Adams -

... the irregularities of the motion of Uranus...in order to find out whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it.[John Couch Adams on how he began to discover Neptune.]

Damien Hirst -

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

Viktor Alexandrov Moon Hoax -

Gravity hurts.

Dannika Dark - Gravity

Sometimes the worst beatings we endure are never the physical kind.

Shaun Hick - The Ghost And Its Shadow

You’re the prettiest thing I’ve seen fall from the sky today.

Edward Witten -

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

Viktor Alexandrov -

Gravity hurts

Luther Burbank -

Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

G.K. Chesterton - Orthodoxy

Satan fell by the force of gravity.

Whitney Barbetti - Ten Below Zero

I so desperately wanted to be his gravity, to hold him on this earth and keep him from leaving me.

Rebecca McNutt -

What goes up, must come down." Well, Issac Newton's law doesn't apply to the internet. That's what people don't realize. When you put something up, as long as there is an internet there will be that same stuff. When you're a senior citizen, what you uploaded to Facebook at a high school party will still be there. Whatever you upload to the internet, no matter how strong your passwords and security are, guaranteed the government or some advertising corporation will look at what you post someday.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -

Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth.

Christophe Galfard - and Beyond

The air around you is filled with floating atoms, sliding down the Earth's spacetime curve. Atoms first assembled in the cores of long-dead stars. Atoms within you, everywhere, disintegrating in radioactive decays. Beneath your feet, the floor - whose electrons refuse to let yours pass, thus making you able to stand and walk and run. Earth, your planet, a lump of matter made out of the three quantum fields known to mankind, held together by gravity, the so-called fourth force (even though it isn

J. Valor - Salome

It was floating. Waiting. It had no sense of how long It had been in this state. Its awareness had retreated into a tiny core at the center of Its being, away from the searing torment of separation, Its very essence ripped apart. Never had It known such sensation. So It had retreated, further and deeper, wrapping Itself in a cocoon of Light; waiting only for a call, for an opening, that It might be reunited with Its Beloved. Waiting until... Something stirred within. Suddenly, there is a reachin

Wernher von Braun -

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.

Shaun David Hutchinson - We Are the Ants

Sometimes I think gravity may be death in disguise. Other times I think gravity is love, which is why love's only demand is that we fall.

Shaun David Hutchinson - We Are the Ants

As human beings, we're born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. But we inevitably die with all our beliefs broken.

Shaun David Hutchinson - We Are the Ants

She's the gristle stuck between Time's teeth, and I love her for it.

Wernher von Braun -

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

Wernher von Braun -

It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

Alan Stern -

Of course Pluto is a planet: It's massive enough to have its shape controlled by gravity rather than material strength, which is the hallmark of planethood.

Isaac Newton -

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

Alan Cohen -

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

Elizabeth Knox - The Vintner's Luck

You fainted and I caught you. It was the first time I'd supported a human. You had such heavy bones. I put myself between you and gravity. Impossible.

Kate Carlisle - Books of a Feather

An artist can try and pretend he is not following rules, but let's remember that nature itself provides rules. Gravity for instance.

Paul A.M. Dirac -

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

Laini Taylor - Night of Cake & Puppets

It’s like losing gravity and falling into space – the moment of pitching headlong when the endlessness of space asserts itself and there is no more down, only an eternity of up, and you realize you can fall forever and never run out of stars.

Mohsin Hamid - Moth Smoke

I push against the tree and run away, stumbling, the unreal night playing with me, gravity pulling from below, behind, above, making me fall. And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth's spin, of our planet twirling as it careens through nothingness, of the stars spiraling above, of the uncertainty of everything, even ground, even sky. Mumtaz never calls out, although a thousand and one voices scream in my mind, sing, whisper, taunt me with madness.

W. Ian Thomas -

I may wish to return to my home in England, and I stand in New York, but ever since I was born I have been bound to this earth by a law that I have never been able to break--the law of gravity. I am told, however, that there is another law, a higher law, the law of aero-dynamics, and if only I will be willing to commit myself in total trust to this new law, then this new law will set me free from the old law. By faith I step into the plane, I sit back in the rest of faith, and as those mighty en

Phineas Flynn -

An absolute law without hope of appeal that's despotism!

Fred Frith -

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

Dan Brown - Angels & Demons

Everything does fall. It must be gravity.

Christina Engela - Prodigal Sun

Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the corridor, from following her inside. Then, almost falling into one of the gravity couches, she hurriedly strapped herself into it before punching the emergency release. She hoped the escape system still worked. It did. The explosive dead-bolts fired, shaking the pod loose, dislodging it from the rapidly disintegrating wreck, just about shaking the crap out of her on

Courtney M. Privett - Shards of Chaos

What is love if not the gravity of souls?

R. Buckminster Fuller -

Love is metaphysical gravity.

Gregory Benford -

Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere.

Laurel Clark -

The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.

Sean F. Hogan - Painting Angels

What goes up must come down. But what is up? And what is down? Are you up there looking down on me? Or is it I who has the trick with gravity? Reach for me and I'll reach for you. For in the middle is where grounds stand true. 'Tis not a lie nor a deceived eye, but an understanding between you and I. So I ask again to a friend with a cup, have a drink with me if you know what's up?

Trebor Healey - A Horse Named Sorrow

Consequently, any boy who appeared at such a time was bound to carry a certain weight, a sort of saving grace, a fateful gravity.

Yuval Ne'eman -

The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes.

Gayendra Abeywardane - Crocodile Chamber

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

Ankala V Subbarao -

Gravity proves that the whole universe is filled with Love.

Shannon Hale - Dangerous

We were quiet, two tiny specks glued down by gravity, peering at a universe that didn't notice us back.

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

Smartass Disciple: Master, where is exactly the edge of this universe ?Master of Stupidity: Edge is wherever the absence of universal gravity.

Toba Beta - Master of Stupidity

Smartass Disciple: Master, tell me what is it beyond this universe ?Master of Stupidity: No 'space' in no 'gravity'. No 'thing' in spaceless.

Shaun David Hutchinson -

The universe is more than thirteen billion years old. What is the value of a single kiss compared to that?

Joseph Fourier - The Analytical Theory of Heat

Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study of them being the object of natural philosophy.Heat, like gravity, penetrates every substance of the universe, its rays occupy all parts of space. The object of our work is to set forth the mathematical laws which this element obeys. The theory of heat will hereafter form one of the most important branches of general physics.

Jon Morrison - a Message to Share

Think about goodness like you think about gravity. Whether or not you believe in gravity, it is still there. Every day you are affected by gravity regardless of how well you understand the physics of it. In this chapter I am asking whether objective morality is something like gravity operating in accordance with the laws of the universe. Are there some things that are always right and some things that are always wrong? Put another way, has there ever been a time in history where it would have be

Shannon A. Thompson - Death Before Daylight

His entire presence was like gravity, impossible to forget, possible to believe in, a theory merged into a law.

Alain de Botton - Status Anxiety

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively anxious or desirous, and of losing ourselves to vanity and error. Surreptitiously and beguilingly, then, with humour or gravity, works of art--novels, poems, plays, paintings or films--can function as vehicles to explain our condition to us. They may act as guides to a

Cassandra Clare - The Bane Chronicles

Sincerity and gravity, in Magnus's opinion, were highly overrated, as was being forced to relive unpleasant memories. He would much rather be amused and amusing.

Jasper Fforde -

Magic is the fifth fundamental force and is even more mysterious than gravity, which is really saying something.

Katie Alender - As Dead As It Gets

I was deep in a dream about photography-walking through a strange city with buildings that stretched so high they disappeared into the clouds. And every time I took a picture of one, it shivered and changed into something else. A sound came from a building behind me-a soft song. I started to walk toward it's open doors, but they closed. I would have to climb in a window-and then I woke up.