Any two masses, bodies, or particles can be attracted to one another by the influence of gravity.
The attraction between things and the Earth is only one aspect of gravity. In the entire cosmos, there is an attraction among all the bodies. The force of gravity exists in the entire universe.
The force holding the gases in the sun is just one example of the gravitational field. The power behind a ball's descent after being thrown into the air and the force that makes an automobile slide downhill even when the throttle is not pressed are other examples of gravity.
Scientist Isaac Newton is credited with discovering gravity. He is thought to have developed the gravitational theory after witnessing an apple fall from a tree.
Did you know that the tides in the seas and oceans are caused by gravity?
Everything in the cosmos is attracted to one another by gravity. Tides are caused because the Moon pulls the Earth, which causes the water to agitate. The water in our oceans and seas will accumulate on the side of Earth nearest to the Moon as it spins. Because of this, there are high and low tides.
Funny Gravity Quotes
Did you know that the Moon would have likely sailed away by now if there was no gravity? The gravitational pull of the Earth holds it in orbit.
The collection of fun and humorous gravity quotes below will make you smile.
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."
- Albert Einstein
"Gravity is love, and every turn is a leap of faith."
- Warren Miller
"There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit."
- Donald E. Brownlee
"Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers."
- Dave Barry
"May your dreams defy the laws of gravity."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr
"Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 % of all accidents involving falling objects."
- Dave Barry
“His name is Marcus: he is four and a half and possesses that deep gravity and seriousness that only small children and mountain gorillas have ever been able to master.”
- Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Gravity quotes about love
"Ultimately, one of its twentieth-century scientists would invent relativity out of his head and predict the existence of gravitational waves."
- Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
"Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it."
- Kip Thorne
“Unlike humans, gravitational force never pushes you down.”
- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
Thought-Provoking Gravity Quotes
Each planet exerts a different gravitational attraction. The planet's mass causes it to have a varied gravitational attraction. On Mercury, something that weighs 100 lbs on Earth would only weigh 38 lbs.
The following quotes on gravity will leave you thinking about it and you can also learn some interesting facts about gravity along the way.
"In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music."
- Roy H. Williams
"It's the gravity that shapes the large-scale structure of the universe, even though it is the weakest of four categories of forces."
- Stephen Hawking
"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."
- David Soul
"We see only the simple motion of descent since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible."
- Galileo Galilei
"The gravity is the first thing which you don't think."
- Albert Einstein
"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."
- Laurel Clark
"There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change."
- Edward Witten
"Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever."
- Ben Stein
"I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity."
- Antony Garrett Lisi
“Sometimes I wonder if my heart is like a black hole--it's so dense that there's no room for light, but that doesn't mean it can't still suck me in.”
- Jasmine Warga
“Gravity is no match against one who is determined to reach the stars.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
Popular Gravity Quotes
Gravity plays a crucial role. Life would not even exist if gravity didn't exist. All matter would launch into space and float there! Here are a few famous gravity quotes you should know to learn more about the weakest yet most vital force.
"Bodies like the Earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points."
- Stephen Hawking
"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."
- Isaac Newton
"Gravity proves that the whole universe is filled with Love."
- Ankala V Subbarao
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."
- Stephen Hawking
"Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"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."
- Richard Dawkins
“Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.”
- Neil Gaiman
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”
- Walter Anderson
"This was the beginning of gravitational-wave astronomy. Our team had achieved, for gravitational waves, what Galileo achieved for electromagnetic waves."
- Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions
“Nothing external to you has any power over you.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Gravity holds the universe together. Beauty makes it float around.”
- Anoir Ou-Chad
“The apple does fall, but the earth never falls, the beauty of gravity.”
- P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
Gravity Quotes By Famous People
The most outstanding scientists in history have left us with motivational quotations about their discoveries, philosophies, and world perceptions.
Generations of youthful explorers eager to discover more about the universe and determined to improve themselves have been inspired by these gravity quotations.
"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand."
- Oprah Winfrey
"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."
- Isaac Newton
"If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed."
- Isaac Newton
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why."
– Mark Twain.
"Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing to carry sound. No air pressure. No oxygen. Life in space is impossible."
- Matt Kowalski, 'Gravity', 2013
"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."
- Isaac Newton
"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators."
- Dave Barry
“The laws of gravity work everywhere except in the heart and the soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
“Gravity keeps us grounded for only so long.”
― Bert McCo
