Gravity Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.

  Dan Simmons

  Love, Matter, Structure

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.1249, Spectra

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• When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge map of Britain hung upside down in his office, so the channel was at the top and Scotland was at the bottom and, apparently, he said, "This is how we need to look at this country, with the money and the power draining by force of gravity out of the south east." That was a great idea. I rather liked him for that. I don't know if it's actually true or not.

  Neal Ascherson

  Country, Thinking, Scotland

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• Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  War, Law, Peaceful

  Clare Boothe Luce (1941). “European spring”

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• The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Hands, Oppression

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.47

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• The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

  Agnes Repplier

  Humor, Essence, Mind

  Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

  Care, Noble, Holy

  John Ruskin (1867). “Precious Thoughts: Moral and Religious. Gathered from the Works of John Ruskin, A. M.”, p.302

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• Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.

  Isaac Watts

  Men, Mind, Lovely

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

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Cohesion, Mythology, Inconvenient

  Elizabeth Janeway (1971). “Man's world, woman's place: a study in social mythology”

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

  George Saunders

  Dancing, Fiction, Realism

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• I've always been a fan of vinyl. There's something about the ritual of it. Something about it holds its gravity, for some reason. Sometimes you'll put on music and the music fades into the background. But when you take that vinyl out and put it down, the music becomes the conversation as opposed to being the soundtrack to it.

  Frank Iero

  Fans, Sometimes, Vinyl

  Source: www.alterthepress.com

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• Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Faith, Men, Sun

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• The memory is like orbiting twin stars, one visible, one dark, the trajectory of what's evident forever affected by the gravity of what's concealed.

  Sue Grafton

  Stars, Memories, Dark

  Sue Grafton (2010). “"O" is for Outlaw”, p.28, Macmillan

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• There were many stages to the Atlantean civilization. During the later stages, scientists became involved with advanced particle physics. In particular they were interested in reverse gravity fields.

  Frederick Lenz

  Civilization, Atlantis, Fields

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• If the dreams of any so-called normal man were exposed ... there would be no more gravity and dignity left for mankind.

  Vera Caspary

  Dream, Men, Would Be

  Laura ch. 2 (1943)

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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 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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