Gravity Quotes
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It would have been cruel in Miss Havisham, horribly cruel, to practise on the susceptibility of a poor boy, and to torture me through all these years with a vain hope and an idle pursuit, if she had reflected on the gravity of what she did. But I think she did not. I think that in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.
Charles Dickens
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I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
William Allingham
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Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances.
Isaac Newton
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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Aristotle
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Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.
Isaac Newton
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Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.
H. W. Brands
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The gravity is the first thing which you don't think.
Albert Einstein
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It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.
Charles Nodier
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When you play from the heart,
all of a sudden there's no gravity.
You don't feel the weight of the world,
of bills, of anything.
That's why people love it.
Your so-called insurmountable problems disappear,
and instead of problems you get possibilities.
Carlos Santana
Santana
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I’ve stood at the four corners, I’ve stood at the county line and looked out past DIA, I’ve stood at the base of Devil’s Thumb, I’ve been all over that damn state and I think when I stand on stage, I feel the gravity of that.
Isaac Slade
The Fray
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One of the main successes of string theory is that it has been able to unify the general theory of relativity, which describes gravity, and quantum mechanics.
Ashoke Sen
