Quotes About Gravity

The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.

The feel of space... Some folks have asked what it is like to work out in space. Yes, you can work upside down, right side up, sideways - anyway you want to to make it convenient.

At stage separation, before the second motor ignites, to me it was a huge unload. You're practically at a zero-G event at that moment. It's the same thing when you get on orbit, except that it never starts up again. It's continuous. And the best way to describe that would be hanging upside down from your bed, like your head fills with blood.

Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women.

Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach.

The first 6 hours of being in orbit were a little difficult on my stomach. I think things just didn't know where to go!

Is truth nothing more than a convention of power, or can truthful historical accounts resist the gravity of politics?

I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.

You will fall with me as a stone in the grave

Pero solo tu voz escucho y sube tu voz con vuelo y precisión de flecha, baja tu voz con gravedad de lluvia, tu voz esparce altísimas espadas, vuelve tu voz cargada de violetas y luego me acompaña por el cielo.

Son of a bitch!" Hunter stared. "I fucking hate it when he does shit like that. That man has a supernatural relationship with gravity.

It is never a question of belief ; the only scientific attitude one can take on any subject is whether it is true . The law of gravitation worked as efficiently before Newton as after him. The cosmos would be fairly chaotic if its laws could not operate without the sanction of human belief.

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

As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless. And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there. Now, Katherine said, if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

If we all worshipped gravity, there would be no disagreements over which way it pulled.

We were at sixty thousand feet. You're thirty percent lighter up there.

Meaning … if enough people begin thinking the same thing, then the gravitational force of that thought becomes tangible … and it exerts actual force." Katherine winked. "And it can have a measurable effect in our physical world.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

At night, this is a heavier world.

Corky, tu as trop l'habitude de regarder vers le haut. Observe un peu le bas. Il y a un environnement à faible gravité, sur terre, et en abondance. Et il est là depuis les temps préhistoriques.

La verdad es poderosa y tiene su propia gravedad; finalmente, la gente se vuelve a sentir atraído por ella.

Everything does fall. It must be gravity.