Universal Gravitation Quotes

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

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

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

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.

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.

About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

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

Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes.

Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square of the distance: ... This is the greatest Discovery in Nature that ever was since the World's Creation. It was never so much as hinted by any man before. I wish he had writt plainer, and afforded a little more paper.

When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above ground For any sage's creed or calculation)- A mode of proving that the earth turn'd round In a most natural whirl, called 'gravitation'; And this is the sole mortal who could grapple, Since Adam, with a fall, or with an apple.

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.

...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World.

No one must think that Newton’s great creation can be overthrown in any real sense by this [Theory of Relativity] or by any other theory. His clear and wide ideas will for ever retain their significance as the foundation on which our modern conceptions of physics have been built.

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

Gravity is not a version of the truth. It is the truth. Anyone who doubts it is invited to jump out a tenth-storey window.

Thus far 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. Indeed, this force arises from some cause that penetrates as far as the centers of the sun and planets without any diminution of its power to act, and that acts not in proportion to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles on which it acts (as mechanical causes are wont to do) but in proportion to the quantity of solid matter, and whose action is extended everywhere to immense distances, always decreasing as the squares of the distances.

The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642

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

Where the statue stood Of Newton, with his prism and silent face, The marble index of a mind forever Voyaging through strange seas of thought alone.

And make us as Newton was, who in his garden watching The apple falling towards England, became aware Between himself and her of an eternal tie.