“The microgravity or the very, very low amount of gravity that we have up in space forces some changes in different processes. It forces changes in us as human beings.” HumansDifferentForceProcessHuman BeingsSpaceAmountLowsGravity Author:Laurel Clark
“We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.” PeopleThinkingLittlesEarthFictionFantasyPossibilityPlanetsScience FictionFinanceUncomfortableGravityOur Planet Author:Anthony Daniels
“And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.” ScienceFallEternalGardenEnglandTiesApplesGravityNewton Author:W. H. Auden
“But shall gravity be therefore called an occult cause, and thrown out of philosophy, because the cause of gravity is occult and not yet discovered? Those who affirm this, should be careful not to fall into an absurdity that may overturn the foundations of all philosophy. For causes usually proceed in a continued chain from those that are more compounded to those that are more simple; when we are arrived at the most simple cause we can go no farther ... These most simple causes will you then call occult and reject them? Then you must reject those that immediately depend on them.” ShouldMayPhilosophyScienceFallCausesSimpleDependsFoundationCarefulChainsThrownRejectsBe CarefulGravityAbsurdityOccult Author:Roger Cotes
“We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.” ShowsEarthScienceLinesSimpleCommonBuiltStonesRemainsSurfaceGravityTowersParallelsDescentStraight Lines Author:Galileo Galilei
“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.” SaidEarthScienceTurnsFallFoundNaturalAnswersSawsProveRoundsMortalsContemplationApplesAdamGravitySoleCreedsSageNewtonCalculationsGravitation Author:Lord Byron
“I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any one. It is satisfactory, as showing how transient such impressions are, to remember that the greatest discovery ever made by man, namely, the law of attraction of gravity, was also attacked by Leibnitz, 'as subversive of natural, and inferentially of revealed, religion.'” MenShouldMadeReasonFeelingsRememberLawScienceReligionGivenNaturalReligiousViewsDiscoverySpeciesAttractionImpressionLaw Of AttractionReason WhyShockGravityVolumeTransientSubversiveOrigin Of Species Author:Charles Darwin
“One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.” LifeShowsLawEvolutionDegreesOrganizedGravityOrganismsDisobedience Book:LILA An Inquriry into Morals Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.” MindHeartMadeMomentsLawFallSkyUnderstoodWeightDifficultyLaysNotionPhysicsFlightPlanesStayingGravityLaws Of PhysicsDefyingAerodynamicsDefying Gravity Book:The Pilot's Wife Source: The Pilot's Wife
“How odd that Americans, and not just their presidents, have come to think of their Constitution as something separable from the government it's supposed to constitute. In theory, it should be as binding on rulers as the laws of physics are on engineers who design bridges; in practice, its axioms have become mere options. Of course engineers don't have to take oaths to respect the law of gravity; reality gives them no choice. Politics, as we see, makes all human laws optional for politicians.” ThinkingGivingShouldHumansRealityGovernmentLawChoicesCoursesPresidentPracticeDesignTheoryPoliticianConstitutionMerePhysicsBridgesOddGravityRulersEngineersOathBindingAxiomsLaws Of PhysicsOptional Author:Joseph Sobran
“I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.” CollegeMovedSouthMilesPunishmentGravityLiableAuthorshipVengeful Author:David Knopfler
“I'm looking for a Justice who appreciates the awesome responsibility that she will be given, if confirmed. A Justice who understands the gravity of the office and who respects the very different roles that the Constitution provides for each of the three branches of government.” IfsDifferentGovernmentThreeGivenJusticeResponsibilityRolesOfficeAppreciateConstitutionBranchesGravityBranches Of GovernmentThree Branches Of Government Author:Amy Klobuchar