Top 33 Gravity Isaac Newton Quotes
#1. It was a little insulting to admit that a drooling dolt like Coulter might be right about something, but after all, Isaac Newton didn't reject gravity just because the apple had a low IQ.
Jeff Lindsay
#2. The Church no more gave us the New Testament canon than Isaac Newton gave us the force of gravity.
J.I. Packer
#3. The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.
Isaac Newton
#4. If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.
Isaac Newton
#5. As to your Newton, I confess I do not understand his void and his gravity; I admit he has demonstrated the movement of the heavenly bodies with more exactitude than his forerunners; but you will admit it is an absurdity to maintain the existence of Nothing.
[Letter to Voltaire, 25 Nov. 1777]
Frederick The Great
#6. The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.
Neal Boortz
#7. For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.
Bryant McGill
#8. 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.
Isaac Newton
#9. One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.
Isaac Newton
#11. My mom is a gym teacher, and shes not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.
Annaleigh Ashford
#12. He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.
Isaac Newton
#13. Your love is a terrible thing," November says. "It sits heavy. It stings. It cuts."
She shrugs. "I am Casimira."
"I don't know if I can bear it."
"I would not have chosen you if you could not. You will get stronger. You will grow calluses.
Catherynne M Valente
#14. The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.
Seth Shostak
#15. Have you ever seen innovation where someone didn't take a risk?
Jean Case
#16. The hypothesis of matter's being at first evenly spread through the heavens is, in my opinion, inconsistent with the hypothesis of innate gravity without a supernatural power to reconcile them, and therefore, it infers a deity.
Isaac Newton
#17. It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
Madeline Zima
#18. You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.
Isaac Newton
#19. and I had spent a few days debating whether or not Michael was actually gay or just English. With the advent of metrosexuals and Europeans running around Manhattan, one never knows.
Polly Courtney
#20. Cyanide. On ice with a twist of lime. Or water. But I'm not budging on the lime."
Lyon, Jennifer (2013-02-22). The Proposition (The Plus One Chronicles) (Kindle Location 1365). Jennifer Lyon Books. Kindle Edition.
Jennifer Lyon
#21. Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.
Isaac Newton
#23. I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
Nick Cave
#24. Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
Isaac Newton
#25. Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.
Isaac Newton
#26. The "gravity train" was devised in the seventeenth century by British scientist Robert Hooke, who presented the idea in a letter to Isaac Newton. The idea has been seriously presented a few times, such as to the Paris Academy of Sciences in the nineteenth century.
Stephen Baxter
#27. Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, By thinking about it all the time.
Isaac Newton
#28. That one body should act upon another through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else is so great an absurdity that no man suited to do science ... can ever fall into it, ... Gravity must be caused by an agent ... but whether that agent be material or immaterial I leave to my readers.
Isaac Newton
#29. I made 5,127 prototypes of my vaccum before I got it right. There were 5,126 failures. But I learned from each one. That's how I came up with a solution. So I don't mind failure.
James Dyson
#30. Just because an apple falls one hundred times out of a hundred does not mean it will fall on the hundred and first.
Derek Landy
#31. The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.
Hale Irwin
#32. The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
Isaac Newton
#33. 'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.
Rutina Wesley
