Gravity Quotes - Page 26

• Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of gravity, electric and magnetic energy; in my own way, to make a synthesis.

  Nicole Brossard

  Unique, Energy, Synthesis

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• Walter C. Wright has a more cogent presentation than my father did about [gravity] being a push. But he had the same basic belief, that the idea of magnetism attracting something was not the reason why the effects of what we call gravity occur.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Ideas, Reason Why

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• My father would conclude his dissertations by saying, "Of course, [Albert] Einstein never believed in gravity. It was a distortion of space." And so my father couldn't believe that an attraction at a distance was a reality.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Distance, Believe

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.

  Paul Laffoley

  Believe, People, Sense Of Humor

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a "denier" and informs us that climate change is "a principle in physics. It's like gravity. It exists." Perhaps he's right. Climate change is like gravity - a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.

  Sarah Palin

  Long, Interesting, President

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• I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Forgiving, World, Betrayed

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter comes from.

  Ben Stein

  Law, Matter, Physics

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• The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Matter, Should, Avenues

  Atoms for Peace, delivered 8 December 1953, United Nations General Assembly

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• The loss of seriousness seems to me to be, in effect, a loss of hope. I think that the thing that made people rise to real ambition, real gravity was the sense of posterity, for example - a word that I can remember hearing quite often when I was a child and I never hear anymore. People actually wanted to make the world good for people in generations that they would never see. It makes people think in very large terms to try to liberate women, for example, or to try to eliminate slavery.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Children, Real, Ambition

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Rising, Elements, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after all, is all a wave really is). Briefly we defy gravity and ride the energy of storms from elsewhere. We are intensely alone as we do it and yet completely swallowed by something larger that enforces a sense of perspective and connectedness to the natural world. It's an experience we yearn to repeat so we go searching for it again and again and we spend years sitting in the water waiting for these radiating lines to come in across the event horizon.

  Tim Winton

  Real, Past, Years

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

  Mark Twain

  Age, Earth, Way

  Mark Twain (2015). “Complete Letters of Mark Twain”, p.689, Litres

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• Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

  Kip Thorne

  Years, Law, Understanding

  "Kip Thorne: physicist studying time travel tapped for Hollywood film". Interview with Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2013.

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fancy, Young, Folly

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.355

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• All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.

  George Orwell

  Law, Profound, Wickedness

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

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• I can't keep from fooling around with our irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure knowingly to mix up two and three dimensionalities, flat and spatial, and to make fun of gravity.

  M. C. Escher

  Fun, Two, Example

  "On Being a Graphic Artist" by M. C. Escher, 1981.

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• It's like being a newborn, this sudden sensory overload of noise, color, smells and gravity after months of quietly floating, encased in relative calm and isolation. No wonder babies cry in protest when they're born.

  Chris Hadfield

  Baby, Color, Smell

  Chris Hadfield (2013). “An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• Those who would legislate against the teaching of evolution should also legislate against gravity, electricity and the unreasonable velocity of light, and also, should introduce a clause to prevent the use of the telescope, the microscope and the spectroscope or any other instrument of precision which may in the future be invented, constructed or used for the discovery of truth.

  Luther Burbank

  Teaching, Light, Discovery

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• Love is the social equivalent of gravity.

  Morris Berman

  Inspirational, Love Is, Social

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• I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Found, Theory, Geometric

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• It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth

  Denise Morrison

  Effort, Growth, Next Steps

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• Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

  Margaret Atwood

  May, Free Will, Notion

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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

  Trish Sie

  Zero, Looks, Opening

  "OK Go Drops New Zero-Gravity Video". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. February 14, 2016.

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• And my voice now is a struggle, it's a daily struggle to keep it up. Gravity has begun to fight the vocal cords the way it does with everybody. So I have a vocal therapist, and we record the sessions and I use them on tour every day.

  Joan Baez

  Struggle, Fighting, Voice

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick together, clumping into rocky asteroids, which eventually become orbiting rocky planets. And voila: a solar system!

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Dust, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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