Adam Riess Quotes

Everything every day here on Earth is based on gravity, and you don't realize it until you don't have it anymore.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

You think Earth's gravity is really something when you're climbing the stairs. But, as far as physics goes, it is a pipsqueak, infinitesimal, tiny little effect.

Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.

The universe is composed of matter, and, as a system, is sustained by motion. Motion is not a property of matter, and without this motion the solar system could not exist.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

I've been noticing gravity since I was very young.

The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time.

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.

There is still some gravity where we are and even as far out as our moon. That is why our moon stays in orbit around the Earth. We don't feel the gravity up here because it is so much smaller than the force we feel when we are on the Earth.

Gravity is matter’s sugar daddy.

Physics has the cutest words.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

What really made me think about space and begin to think about ways to use it was Einstein's statement that there are no fixed points in space. Everything in the universe is moving all the time.

Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.

Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center.

Ladies and Gentlemen...we are floating in Space!

Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.

Dark energy is perhaps the biggest mystery in physics.

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked 'why.'

If there are other worlds elsewhere in the universe, I would conjecture they are governed by the same laws of natural selection.

I'm a person who's very interested in science and the universe and quantum physics and astrophysics.

Some of the best scientists can't explain gravity; Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, in the end, do they even know?