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)
One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.
isaac newton— Written in remarks to the 1714 Longitude committee; quoted in Longitude (1995) by Dava Sobel, p. 52 (i998 edition) ISBN 1-85702-571-7),
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.
I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric isgoverned by gravity.
— Quoted in Louis Untermeyer 'Five Famous Poetesses', in Ladies' Home Journal, May1964.
None need a guide, by sure attraction led, And strong impulsive gravity of head.
Alexander Pope— 1742 The Dunciad, bk.4, l.75-6.
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 who controls the weather, will control the world. He who controls gravity, will control the universe. He who controls time, will never be around."
thomas frey— Source: DaVinci Institute - Quotable Quotes
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! But only thence does the road lead... to a radically new insight into the mysterious gravity of my existence as an uncertain enterprise and to its transcendental meaning.
václav havel— As quoted in "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger in Christian Century (11 April 1990)
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))
His smile is sweetened by his gravity.
george eliot— Book 1 (The Spanish Gypsy (1868))
Macavity, Macavity, there's no on like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity.
— Macavity: The Mystery Cat
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
To physicists such as myself, the huge amount of invisible dark matter needed to make Einstein's theory fit the astrophysical data is reason enough for exploring modified gravity theories.
john moffat— Chapter 9, Other Alternative Gravity Theories, p. 143
A large part of the relativity community is in denial - refusing even to contemplate the idea that black holes may not exist in nature, or seriously consider the idea that any kind of new matter such as the new putative dark energy can play a fundamental role in gravity theory.
john moffat— Chapter 14, Do Black Holes Exist In Nature?, p. 204
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
There are necessities and impossibilities in reality which do not obtain in fiction , any more than the law of gravity to which we are subject controls what is represented in a picture. ... It is the same with pure good; for a necessity as strong as gravity condemns man to evil and forbids him any good, or only within the narrowest limits and laboriously obtained and soiled and adulterated with evil. ... The simplicity which makes the fictional good something insipid and unable to hold the attention becomes, in the real good, an unfathomable marvel.
Simone Weil— “Morality and literature,” pp. 160-161
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
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.
’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.
Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.
Sakyong mipham— Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies for Modern Life
