quotes about Gravity
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Gravity. It's not just a good idea; it's the law!
-- Adam Savage -
From that day on it was as if Ren freed me from gravity. I was floating in the sky. Higher. Higher. Higher.
-- Ai Yazawa -
I have to say, 'Gravity' is better in 3-D, even though in 2-D the quality of the picture is better. But the 3-D is better.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.
-- Antony Garrett Lisi -
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Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
You yourself must know how boring gravity is to oneself and everyone else.
-- Barbara HamblySource : Barbara Hambly (2011). “The Silent Tower”, p.66, Open Road Media
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There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
-- Ben Stein -
Evolution is not something you can believe in or not believe in like do you believe in gravity.
-- Bill Nye -
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High sprits they had: gravity they flouted.
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I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity.
-- Christiaan HuygensSource : Quoted in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 56 (1948), pp. 189 - 190, 1691.
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... all good things beyond sleep come precisely because we defy gravity while we live.
-- Dan Simmons -
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
-- Dave Barry -
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gravity, n. I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.
-- David Levithan -
There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.
-- Donald E. Brownlee -
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change.
-- Edward Witten -
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Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.
-- Elizabeth JanewaySource : Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”
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Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.
-- George Eliot -
Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.
-- George Saunders -
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.
-- H. G. Wells -
I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'
-- Hafez -
Gravity is the best cloak for sin in all countries.
-- Henry Fielding -
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
-- Isaac Newton -
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The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.
-- Jack PalanceSource : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
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Each nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
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As vivacity is the gift of woman, gravity is that of men.
-- Joseph Addison -
There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.
-- Josh Billings -
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I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.
-- Ken Kutaragi -
Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.
-- Laurel Clark -
Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.
-- Lebbeus Woods -
Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity.
-- Leon Trotsky -
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You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.
-- Lisa Randall -
What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.
-- Lorenzo di BonaventuraSource : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 23, 2013.
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You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.
-- Michael Marshall SmithSource : Michael Marshall Smith (2010). “Only Forward (Voyager Classics)”, p.37, HarperCollins UK
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And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid.
-- Mira Grant -
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85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
I love working with Alexander Skarsgard. He brings such gravity to a scene.
-- Nelsan Ellis -
The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.
-- Paul Harvey -
Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.
-- Paul HindemithSource : 1937 The Craft of Musical Composition.
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Every time you tell someone that you are going to fly and they talk about gravity, that is doubt.
-- Philip K. Jason -
The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.
-- R. A. LaffertySource : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 4), 1968.
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When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity.
-- Ray StevensonSource : "Ray Stevenson (Volstag) and Joshua Dallas (Fandril) On Set Interview THOR". Interview on the Set, collider.com. December 10, 2010.
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Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.
-- Richard Dawkins -
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Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.
-- Richard LewontinSource : Source: www.abc.net.au
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Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
-- Sakyong MiphamSource : "The 12 Principles of Pyong'hwa: Pathways and Perspectives for More Peace and Tranquility in Life". Book by Steev Ramsdell, 2012.
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The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.
-- Scott HahnSource : Scott Hahn (2007). “Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith”, p.9, Image
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You can study gravity forever without learning how to fly.
-- Shawn Achor -
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Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.
-- Stephen Hawking -
‎Imprinting on someone is like... Like when you see her... Everything changes. All of a sudden, its not gravity holding you to the planet. It's her... Nothing else matters.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
-- Terry Pratchett -
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I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.
-- Tinie Tempah -
They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.
-- Tom DeLonge -
Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.
-- Warren Miller -
I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
-- William Allingham -
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The child which overbalances itself in learning to walk is experimenting on the law of gravity.
-- William Stanley Jevons -
I don't do ups, ups defy gravity. Gravity is a law. I obey the law
-- John Pinette -
Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.
-- Jon SpaihtsSource : Source: www.mtv.com
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Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
-- Tim O'Brien -
Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong.
-- Trish Sie -
[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.
-- Willis Regier -
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As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches.
-- Elizabeth Lowell -
I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.
-- Gabriel Mann -
Australians have defied global economic gravity.
-- Wayne Swan -