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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. -- Albert Einstein
Gravitation is the lust of the cosmos. -- Mary Roach
Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena. -- Richard P. Feynman
To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places. -- Wendell Phillips
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science. -- Andrei Sakharov
My position is perfectly definite. Gravitation, motion, heat, light, electricity and chemical action are one and the same object in various forms of manifestation. -- Robert Mayer
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Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation. -- Thomas Hobbes
I'm always keen to head to where the greatest gravitation pull is tugging me. -- Grant-Lee Phillips
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation. -- D. H. Lawrence
Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation. -- O. Henry
My natural gravitation is toward the gray and the black and the white and the burgundy. Sort of muted, cool colors. -- Jessica Pare
Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it. -- Albert Einstein
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter. -- Albert Einstein
With the exception of gravitation and radioactivity, all of the phenomena known to physicists and chemists in 1911 have their ultimate explanation in the laws of quantum electrodynamics. -- Richard P. Feynman
Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph? -- Jules Verne
The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion -- Henry George
Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback. -- Charles Spurgeon
The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is. -- Richard P. Feynman
Whether humanity will consciously follow the law of love, I do not know. But that need not disturb me. The law will work just as the law of gravitation works whether we accept it or not. -- Mahatma Gandhi
All the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction. -- Richard P. Feynman
When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind. -- Antonin Artaud
Man ... can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension, or even turn about and travel the other way. -- H. G. Wells
Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection. -- Edward Weston
The birth of science as we know it arguably began with Isaac Newton's formulation of the laws of gravitation and motion. It is no exaggeration to say that physics was reborn in the early 20th-century with the twin revolutions of quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity. -- Paul Davies
Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of power from law altogether. Call law tabulation of facts, expression of facts, or what you will; anything rather than suppose that it either explains or compels. -- Florence Nightingale
The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. -- Peter Bayne
I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation. -- Albert Einstein
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love. How on earth can you explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love? Put your hand on a stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with that special girl for an hour and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A. -- Ambrose Bierce
The Golden Rule works like gravitation. -- Charles Fletcher Dole
Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one -- Thomas Hardy
Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass. -- Lawrence Durrell
Truth is to the moral world what gravitation is to the material. -- William M. Evarts
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. -- George Stillman Hillard
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All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing. -- David Finckel
We can deduce, often, from one part of physics like the law of gravitation, a principle which turns out to be much more valid than the derivation. -- Richard P. Feynman
Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction. -- Jodi Picoult
I'm generally a very annoyingly positive person, in real life. I think that might have something to do with my gravitation towards angry human beings on screen. -- Shailene Woodley
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. On being reproached that his formula of gravitation was longer and more cumbersome than Newton's. -- Albert Einstein
On the attraction between man and woman society is based; but its refined is greater than its gross force, and its weight is like the gravitation of the globe. -- C. A. Bartol
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved. -- Jorge Luis Borges
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation. -- Victor Hugo
I have never thought that you could obtain the extremely clumpy, heterogeneous universe we have today, strongly affected by plasma processes, from the smooth, homogeneous one of the Big Bang, dominated by gravitation. -- Hannes Alfven
I believe that I have really found the relationship between gravitation and electricity, assuming that the Miller experiments are based on a fundamental error. Otherwise, the whole relativity theory collapses like a house of cards. -- Albert Einstein

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