Quotes about gravity
A collection of quotes on the topic of gravity, use, law, in-laws.
Quotes about gravity


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

"Newton's Principia" in 300 Years of Gravitation. (1987) by S. W. Hawking and W. Israel, p. 4

Written in remarks to the 1714 Longitude committee; quoted in Longitude (1995) by Dava Sobel, p. 52 (i998 edition) ISBN 1-85702-571-7)
Board of Longitude

[citation needed]
Others

“The law of gravity thus asserts itself when a house falls about our ears.”
Vol. I, Ch. 1, Section 4, pg. 86.
(Buch I) (1867)

"A Universe in Your Backyard," in Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1996) ed. John Brockman, p. 279.

“The centre of gravity of a parallelogram is the point of intersection of its diagonals.”
Book 1, Proposition 10.
On the Equilibrium of Planes

Robert Louis Stevenson Familiar Studies of Men and Books (London: Chatto & Windus, 1882), ch. 6.
Criticism

Query 21
Opticks (1704)

1900s, Inaugural Address (1905)

Four Letters to Bentley (1692) first letter
The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next (2007)

(ca. 1716) A Catalogue of the Portsmouth Collection of Books and Papers Written by Or Belonging to Sir Isaac Newton https://books.google.com/books?id=3wcjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR18 (1888) Preface
Also partially quoted in Sir Sidney Lee (ed.), The Dictionary of National Biography Vol.40 http://books.google.com/books?id=NycJAAAAIAAJ (1894)

Query 21
Opticks (1704)

Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1999. Canto 5, Chapter 23, verse 3, purport. Vedabase http://www.vedabase.com/en/sb/5/23/3
Quotes from Books: Loving God, Quotes from Books: Regression of Science

September 3 1944, <Appeal to the Soldiers of the Army of the West>. Quoted in "Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944" - Page 191 - by Joachim Ludewig - 2012

Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676)
Context: I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.

Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face
Context: To live is to be happy to live. The usefulness of life — ah! its expansion has not the mystic shapes we vainly dreamed of when we were paralyzed by youth. Rather has it a shape of anxiety, of shuddering, of pain and glory. Our heart is not made for the abstract formula of happiness, since the truth of things is not made for it either. It beats for emotion and not for peace. Such is the gravity of the truth.

“I wish that there was nothing to hold me here, that gravity was a suggestion I could ignore.”
Source: Perdido Street Station

“gravity, n.
I imagine you saved my life. And then I wonder if I'm just imagining it.”
Source: The Lover's Dictionary

“Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.”
Source: Smarra & Trilby
Existencilism (2002)
Source: Wall and Piece

“Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.”

Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)

The Guardian 2 August 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2008/aug/02/television.television
Guardian columns

“Gravity’s books have got to balance.”
Source: Farmer in the Sky (1950), Chapter 17, “Disaster” (p. 177)

page 19 of [2002, A brief course in spontaneous symmetry breaking ii. modern times: The BEH mechanism, arXiv preprint hep-th/0203097, https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0203097.pdf]

Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), The Iliad or The Poem of Force (1940-1941), p. 181

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan interview: 'It takes courage to tackle very hard problems in science

as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 233
1908 - 1920, On Mystery and Creation, Paris 1913

Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), p. 29
"Friends"

Lecture 1: Inflationary Cosmology: Is Our Universe Part of a Multiverse? Part I.
The Early Universe (2012)

Prime Minister's website http://web.archive.org/20051103003809/www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page7314.asp
11 March 2005, at the launch of the Commission for Africa Report.
2000s

The Origin of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition (2009)

“It was gravity which pulled us in and destiny which broke us apart”
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind

“The only thing that keeps me here is gravity.”
Jedyne co mnie tu trzyma, to grawitacja.
To Idol contestants

Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), p. 31

Peace Utopias (1911)

Speech on new space exploration initiatives http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040114-3.html (January 14, 2004)
2000s, 2004

“Morality and literature,” pp. 160-161
On Science, Necessity, and the Love of God (1968)

Source: The End of Science (1996), p. 66

"Einstein and the Search for Unification", p. 10 https://books.google.com/books?id=rEaUIxukvy4C&pg=PA10, in The legacy of Albert Einstein: a collection of essays in celebration of the year of physics (2007)