Best 176 quotes in «gravity quotes» category

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.

I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: "Do you believe in Gravity?

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.

I'm not suggesting that ours [series] is unique in that, but they can begin to have that depth, that gravity, they can spend some time, so it's a bit more like reading a good novel, if you like.

I'm not worried. Good luck, ... the center of gravity.

I have a strong disrespect for authority and for rules. Including gravity. Gravity sucks.

‎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.

In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity.

Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices.

In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

I responded to the gravity of an invisible moon at my core, and I undertook journeys I had not expected to take.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

It was like their lives were overlapping lines, like they had their own gravity. Usually, that serendipity thing felt like the nicest thing the universe had ever done for her.

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

It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body.

It was a strangely disorienting feeling, to have something you'd relied on for so long start to change, like finding out that gravity no longer worked on Mondays.

It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.

It is the moment when what was chaos is now seen as having a center of gravity. There is a shape where a moment ago there was none.

It's the gravity that shapes the large scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces

Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working.

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

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.

Love is a metaphysical gravity.

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion.

Realism is to fiction what gravity is to walking: a confinement that allows dancing under the right circumstances.

On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.

Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong.

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.

Space and spacecraft and zero gravity and so forth are very difficult to render.

Strings of gravity vibrate at a different frequency than strings of light.

The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.

The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is as impartial and impersonal as the law of gravity is. It is precise and it is exact

Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.

The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

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.

The way I see it, there's only one melody for any song.

You can be only a modest distance away from the gravity brane, and gravity will be incredibly weak.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

To sit with George [Clooney] and argue about what we're passionate about was amazing. We're good at arguing our points of view and are all about doing what was best for the movie [ "Gravity"].

We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able to cope with accelerations and decelerations and so on. So all of us trained so that we were probably in the best physical condition we had ever been in up until that point.

What I imagined doesn't require anti-gravity beams or anything too spectacular, just advances in analysing different genes, finding out what they can do and recombining them.