Gravity Quotes - Page 2

• Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Karma, Bad Karma, Good Karma

  "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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• If you are lying down to give birth, gravity is not helping you. You know, you stand up and, you know, a baby will basically kind of fall out of you, if you keep walking 'round.

  Caitlin Moran

  Baby, Lying, Fall

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, listen.sdpb.org. August 2, 2012.

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• And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

  Gabrielle Zevin

  Flow, Cry, Stairs

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• Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Religion, Atheism

  Twitter post from Nov 10, 2014

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

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Worry, Sculpture

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• Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

  Stephen Hawking

  Law, Creation Of The Universe, There Being No God

  "The Grand Design". Book by Stephen Hawking, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  David Soul

  Thinking, Over You, Body

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Marianne Moore

  Fabric, Excitement, Sentences

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• Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith.

  Warren Miller

  Leap Of Faith, Skiing, Skis

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• I think if I had to choose, I would rather have gravity instead of zero gravity. It's fun for a while, but I'd rather live on Earth.

  Kevin A. Ford

  Zero, Fun, Thinking

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• Love is metaphysical gravity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Love, Life, Valentines Day

  R. Buckminster Fuller (1982). “Critical Path”, p.374, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Profound, Joy, Gaiety

  Michel de Montaigne, Antoine JAY (1842). “The Complete Works of Michael de Montaigne; Comprising; the Essays, Translated by Cotton; the Letters; the Journey Into Germany and Italy, Now First Translated; a Life by the Editor; Notes: ... Critical Opinions; ... the Éloges of MM. Jay and Villemain; a”, p.313

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• Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances.

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Science, Squares

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• Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

  Dave Barry

  Dog, Tape, Fundamentals

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• Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

  Confucius

  Science, Tree, Bark

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

  Josh Billings

  Particular

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

  Alan Cohen

  Delight, Kites, Littles

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• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophical, Law, Opinion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2014). “Suffering, Suicide and Immortality: Eight Essays from The Parerga”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Theory Of Evolution, Cosmos, Facts

  "Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey". Documentary, 2014.

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• 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

  Variables, Process, Remove

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• Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points.

  Stephen Hawking

  Moving, Two, Space

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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

  Wernher von Braun

  Sarcastic, Work, Science

  "On Bureaucracy". "Chicago Sun-Times" Newspaper, July 10, 1958.

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• Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Space, Overcoming

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (2004). “The Aims Of Astronautics”, p.38, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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