Gravitation Quotes - Page 2

• We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Law, Principles, Physics

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

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• To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Angel, Men

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions

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• Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

  Thomas Hardy

  Two

  Thomas Hardy (2007). “Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Second Edition”, p.174, Broadview Press

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• Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Money, Law, Would Be

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• Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material.

  William M. Evarts

  World, Moral, Truth Is

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• Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Sorrow, Mass, Implicit

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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• When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.

  Antonin Artaud

  Moon, Thinking, Space

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.96, Univ of California Press

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• I'm generally a very annoyingly positive person, in real life. I think that might have something to do with my gravitation towards angry human beings on screen.

  Shailene Woodley

  Real, Thinking, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation.

  Robert Mayer

  Science, Light, Action

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• Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Discipline, Faithful, Amusement

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details. But in history the matter is far otherwise. Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Science, Night

  "On History". The Independent Review 3, pp. 207-215, users.drew.edu. July 1904.

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• Always remember that there is a law of compensation which operates just as infallibly as gravitation, and that victory goes at last where it ought to, and that this is just as true of individuals as of nations.

  William Feather

  Law, Victory, Wages

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• Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, May, Able

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.17, Delphi Classics

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• Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

  O. Henry

  Silly, Flying, Pieces

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.642, Delphi Classics

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• The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.

  Lucio Russo

  Children, Attitude, Past

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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• When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

  Lord Byron

  Fall, Science, Apples

  George Gordon Byron, “Don Juan: Canto The Tenth”

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• I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation.

  Hannes Alfven

  Science, Thinking, Today

  "Hannes Alfvén: Dean of the Plasma Dissidents". Book by Anthony L. Peratt, p. 196, 1998.

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• Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Change, Years, Would Be

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• It is impossible that a town will not play a part in your life, it does not even make much difference whether you have more good or bad things to say of it, it draws your mind to it, by a mental law of gravitation.

  Isak Dinesen

  Law, Play, Differences

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe.

  C. A. Bartol

  Men, Weight, Force

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• Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Wrinkles, Age, Sagging

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (2014). “On Growth and Form”, p.32, Cambridge University Press

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• The test of science is not whether you are reasonable—there would not be much of physics if that was the case—the test is whether it works. And the great point about Newton’s theory of gravitation was that it worked, that you could actually say something about the motion of the moon without knowing very much about the constitution of the Earth.

  Hermann Bondi

  Moon, Knowing, Earth

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• Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits were there before their discovery and would remain even if we forget them.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Father, Discovery

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.13, Advaita Ashrama

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• All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Together, Earth, Position

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

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• Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
  “You are blessed doublee if you are in love”
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  “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

  Albert Einstein

  Valentines Day, Falling In Love, Blessed

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