Gravity Quotes
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Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them.
joel spolsky— "Our .NET Strategy"
The snow in the mountains was melting and Bunny had been dead for several weeks before we came to understand the gravity of our situation.
Donna Tartt— 1992 The Secret History.
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions.
douglas adams— Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998)
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— No. 225. (The Tatler (1711–1714))
Our maritime cluster today is vibrant, comprising more than 130 international ship groups and more than 5000 maritime companies across the full range of industry. We are well positioned to serve as a gateway to Asia, and provide a platform for businesses to benefit from the shifting of centre of gravity to this region
— Ms Josephine Teo, Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport, quoted on Today Online.com, "Government committed to supporting Singapore’s maritime hub status", March 19, 2014.
Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.
Paul Hindemith— 1937 The Craft of Musical Composition.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
Arthur Koestler— 1953 'The Boredom of Fantasy', collected in The Trail of the Dinosaur (1955), pt.2.
Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.
angela carter— The Kitchen Child (1976)
So, I'm not the only one who believes that there is such a thing as "the law of gravity," and if it's a law, it can be violated. If you hit the ground at 120 mph from 1,000 feet, you will suffer the consequences of violating what physics.about.com calls the law of gravity.
ray comfort— "The attraction of the earth", Atheist Central, 24 February 2010, retrieved on 2011-10-21
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.
jacques-yves cousteau— Time (28 March 1960)
I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, not in a chaos without norms, even though that is how it sometimes appears. My subjects are also often playful: I cannot refrain from demonstrating the nonsensicalness of some of what we take to be irrefutable certainties. It is, for example, a pleasure to deliberately mix together objects of two and three dimensions, surface and spatial relationships, and to make fun of gravity.
m. c. escher— From Escher on Escher: exploring the infinite (1989) edited by J. W. Vermeulen and H. N. Abrams.
He used to do surgery On girls in the eighties, But gravity always wins.
thom yorke— Fake Plastic Trees
His smile is sweetened by his gravity.
george eliot— Book 1 (The Spanish Gypsy (1868))
As regards very small celestial bodies of a light-minded nature, the law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.
r. a. lafferty— Atlas, in Ch. 4
With astonishment Aschenbach noticed that the boy was entirely beautiful. His countenance, pale and gracefully reserved, was surrounded by ringlets of honey-colored hair, and with its straight nose, its enchanting mouth, its expression of sweet and divine gravity, it recalled Greek sculpture of the noblest period.
thomas mann— Ch. 3, as translated by David Luke
The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.
karl marx— Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 4, pg.86
Could it be, nevertheless, that Einstein 's theory is wrong? Might it be necessary to modify it to find a new theory of gravity that can explain both the stronger gravity and the apparent antigravity being observed today rather than simply throwing in invisible things to make the standard model work?
john moffat— Introduction, A New Gravity Theory, p. xi
Evolutionism, as taught by Darwinism, has nothing - nothing - to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe - gravity, thermodynamics, motion, fluid motion - how any of those originated. It's...it's got some gigantic missing pieces.
ben stein— Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation. Ben Stein on CNN: Impolite Conversation (18 April 2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-18.
Yes, [I spent] two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve -- no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!"
ben stein— YouTube video. Fox News: Intelligent Journey -- Stein's New Documentary (14 April 2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-23.
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.
ben stein— YouTube video
" the gravity of a substance depends not on the amount of its weight, but on its nature. "
vitruvius— Chapter VIII, Sec. 3
Analysis and natural philosophy owe their most important discoveries to this fruitful means, which is called induction. Newton was indebted to it for his theorem of the binomial and the principle of universal gravity.
— Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, [Truscott and Emory] (New York 1902), p. 176.
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— Joseph Addison, The Tatler, No. 225 (1711–1714)
You could not liberate a stone if there were no law of gravity for where will the stone go, once it is quarried?
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Flight to Arras (1942), Ch. 23
What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight?
— Falstaff, scene iv
’T is not for gravity to play at cherry-pit with Satan.
— Sir Toby, scene iv
As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to to maintain the existence of Nothing.
— Frederick the Great, Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great (New York: Brentano's, 1927), transl. Richard Aldington, letter 221 from Frederick to Voltaire, 25 November 1777.
As the essence of Matter is gravity, so, on the other hand, we may affirm that the substance, the essence of Spirit is Freedom . All will readily assent to the doctrine that Spirit, among other properties, is also endowed with Freedom; but philosophy teaches that all the qualities of Spirit exist only through Freedom; that all are but means for attaining Freedom; that all seek and produce this and this alone.
— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, in Lectures on the Philosophy of History (1832)
