Acceleration Due to Gravity Quotes

Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

It's physics. Pure physics, I'm falling fast and faster still. So fall with me. Fall down with me. And stay.

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

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

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 one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

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.

Principles of motion take precedence over sequence of motion.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

Gravity has taken over me from time to time. But otherwise than that, I'm blessed with good health. That's the bottom line.

Falling is one of the ways of moving.

You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

And I was crying for gravity. It had sent me down the stairs, and I'd thought that meant something, but maybe it was just the direction that all things tend to flow.

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

So, I'm not the only one who believes that there is such a thing as "the law of gravity," and if it's a law, it can be violated. If you hit the ground at 120 mph from 1,000 feet, you will suffer the consequences of violating what physics.about.com calls the law of gravity.

In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window.

We all know we fall. Newton's discovery was that the moon falls, too-and by the same rule that we do.

If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.

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

That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.

I can see the first apple teetering when I let the third arrow go, catching the torn flap and ripping it from the bag. For a moment, everything seems frozen in time. Then the apples spill to the ground and I'm blown backward into the air.