Evangelista Torricelli Quotes

Bubbles are round for the same reason that planets are spherical. The universe itself is like bubbles.

Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.

What goes up must come down.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

It is indeed a law of politics as well as of physics, that a body in action must overcome a body at rest.

We do not force people to move to new homes, we coerce them.

Why, if we're hurtling through space, why would water stay still? Why is it not wobbling?

Bubbles are very simplified versions of some of the basic laws of the universe.

Problem is (follow me closely here, the science is pretty complicated), if I cut a hole in the Hab, the air won't stay inside anymore.

The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself.

The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.

We're sticky at the ends and the middle is getting squeezed

The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.

The force of necessity is irresistible.

Rest and motion, unrelieved and unchecked, are equally destructive.

I still don't understand why when you put a piece of paper in a tray with solution in it, it comes up. It's still, in a sense, magic to me. It's a funny thing, you know. I've got two kids, and when they were very young, they used to come in the darkroom and I thought they'd be astounded by that. Nothing. When they got a little older, then they got astounded by it.

Tonality is a natural force, like gravity.

Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this.

Success goes thus invariably with a certain plus or positive power: an ounce of power must balance an ounce of weight.

Weightless is a great equalizer.