Gravity Quotes - Page 17

• The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable.

  Scott Hahn

  Law, Feels, Inexorable

  Scott Hahn (2007). “Reasons to Believe: How to Understand, Explain, and Defend the Catholic Faith”, p.9, Image

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• As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.

  Isaac Newton

  Light, Stronger, Rays

  Sir Isaac Newton (1718). “Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...”, p.326

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• Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

  Isaac Newton

  Art, Philosophy, Design

  Sir Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte, N. W. Chittenden (1850). “Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, p.66

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• How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.

  Joseph Sobran

  Thinking, Reality, Government

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• I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Responsibility, Government, Office

  "Sonia Sotomayor Faces Senate For Her Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings". "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. July 13, 2009.

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• Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Yield, Mind, Stories

  Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Enemy, Victory, Movement

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• What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 23, 2013.

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• Evolution doesn't care whether you believe in it or not, no more than gravity does. I want to rekindle excitement over what we've achieved as a species with the space program. We can't afford to regress back to the days of superstition.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Believe, Space, Doe

  "Seth MacFarlane on hosting the Oscars, being hated by 'South Park'". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2012.

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• Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Rivers, Forever

  Mary Oliver (2009). “Evidence: Poems”, p.62, Beacon Press

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• It was a strange lightness, a drifting feeling. Zero gravity. I understood that everything that once seemed solid and immovable might just float away. And that this was a truth of life, not an illusion in the grieving mind of a child. Everything that is hard and heavy in your world is made up of billions of molecules in constant motion offering the illusion of permanence. But it all tends toward breaking down and falling away. Some things just go more quickly, more surprisingly, than others.

  Lisa Unger

  Zero, Children, Fall

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• The body stores the trauma of our lives in muscular rigidity, thereby keeping us stuck in the past. When we release the tension in the body and align ourselves with gravity, we take a new stand in life. This allows us to be at ease with ourselves and in harmony in our relationship to others and to our planet.

  Joseph Heller

  Past, Ease, Body

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• We could tell them [alien civilization] things that we have discovered in the realm of mathematical physics, but there is stuff that I would like to know. There are some famous problems like how to bring gravitation and quantum physics together, the long-sought-after theory of quantum gravity. But it may be hard to understand the answer that comes back.

  Paul Davies

  Civilization, Long, Together

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

  Betty White

  Blessed, Taken, Lines

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way that gravity-bound sculpture is real. It is, however, real.

  Squeak Carnwath

  Real, Water, Sculpture

  Squeak Carnwath, John Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco, Calif.) (1994). “Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery”

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• We sleep, allowing gravity to hold us, allowing Earth - our larger body - to recalibrate our neurons, composting the keen encounters of our waking hours , stirring them back, as dreams, into the sleeping substance of our muscles.

  David Abram

  Dream, Sleep, Substance

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• Love is sublime, truly, a precious gift. But also, alas, one of God's little pranks. It's naive of you to confuse love with happiness, as if they were somehow the samae thing. In fact love, once found, is more akin to gravity: too strong, too close, and it will crush you. Unless you're careful, always.

  Wil McCarthy

  Crush, Strong, Love Is

  Wil McCarthy (2009). “The Collapsium”, p.319, Bantam

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• 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

  Thinking, Trying, Figures

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• Historical science is not worse, more restricted, or less capable of achieving firm conclusions because experiment, prediction, and subsumption under invariant laws of nature do not represent its usual working methods. The sciences of history use a different mode of explanation, rooted in the comparative and observational richness in our data. We cannot see a past event directly, but science is usually based on inference, not unvarnished observation (you don't see electrons, gravity, or black holes either).

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Past, Law, Data

  "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould, p. 279, 1989.

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• Gravity is a mutual affection between cognate bodies towards union or conjunction (similar in kind to the magnetic virtue), so that the earth attracts a stone much rather than the stone seeks the earth.

  Johannes Kepler

  Body, Earth, Unions

  "Kepler" by Walter William Bryant, (pp. 35 - 36), 1920.

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• Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

  Paul Hindemith

  Natural, Force

  1937 The Craft of Musical Composition.

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• I can't overrule gravity or turn away an approaching hurricane. I'm powerless over those things, yet this doesn't mean that I can't act with responsibility. I can pack provisions and head to my cellar as a storm approaches.

  Peg O'Connor

  Mean, Responsibility, Storm

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.

  Michael Patrick King

  Letting Go, Mean, Writing

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

  George Eliot

  Life, Saws, Jest

  George Eliot (1863). “Romola”, p.101

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• Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Weak Man, May

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.208

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