Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
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Gravity
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Leon Trotsky
Revolutionary, Politician
"Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravity."
Archimedes
Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer
"The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis."
Ray Stevenson
Actor
"When you're wearing jeans, there's a shift in your center of gravity."
Stephen Hawking
Theoretical Physicist
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing."
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"The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it."
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"To how many blockheads of my time has a cold and taciturn demeanor procured the credit of prudence and capacity!"
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"Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life."
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"The gravity is the first thing which you don't think"
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"And then everything was in the hands of gravity, which has never had much love for the terminally stupid."
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"Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working."
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"As subtle and universally pervasive as gravity, love touches everything, and enhances everything it touches."
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"The gravity of the time is such that every new avenue of peace, no matter how dimly discernible, should be explored."
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"Gravity is a response to geometry."
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"Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity."
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"I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place."
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"85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing."
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"Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest."
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