Quotes About Gravity

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.

I still dream about being on the space station with the feeling of being weightless. The weightlessness is the most amazing, relaxing and natural feeling.

We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.

If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.

The three-body problem is a term borrowed from physics. It is a phenomenon that can basically be explained like this: Two objects in space can interact in a predictable fashion rotating around each other due to their gravitational pull. But if a third object is introduced, it makes their interaction more complicated.

When I was younger, I remember there was a really famous book, and it was called 'The People Could Fly.' And so this idea of, kind of like, black characters kind of jumping into space and kind of the challenge that they presented to gravity I thought was really interesting.

My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I could be a real buffoon, a windbag, be self-involved, and we could get a lot of comic mileage from him. However, the audience accepted me with gravity when I was in a dire situation, so they would follow me in comic or dramatic stories.

What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game.

The trouble with leaving your feet on the ground is you never get to take your pants off.

there is always the chance that some experiment will show that those laws of motion and gravity are incorrect. That is the nature of scientific theories and laws: They are falsifiable but not provable.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

Price fixing is a bit like jumping off a tall building shouting, "I abolish the law of gravity." You cannot simply decree that something is worth more than anyone will pay for it or less than sellers will accept for it.

Everything we feel and do is somehow oriented lifeward, and the least deviation away from this direction toward something beyond is difficult or alarming. This is true even of the simple act of walking: one lifts one's center of gravity, pushes it forward, and lets it drop again - and the slightest change, the merest hint of shrinking from this letting-oneself-drop-into-the-future, or even stopping to wonder at it - and one can no longer stand upright!

Elena startled both of them by flying up so quickly that Stefan had to grab her by the waist to keep her from shooting toward the ceiling. I thought you had gravity!" So did I! What do I do?" Think heavy thoughts!" What if it doesn't work?" We'll buy you an anchor!

You can feel the North. It takes hold of you, marks you. No matter how far you move from its center of gravity, you are invariably drawn to it by an invisible current, like water droplets to the earth, like a needle to a magnet, like blood to blood, desire to desire.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

What goes up must come down.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.

The laws of gravity cannot be held responcible for people falling in love.

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.