"I had not thought of this regular decrease of gravity, namely that it is as the inverse square of the distance; this is a new and highly remarkable property of gravity."

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Source : Quoted in Popular Astronomy, Vol. 56 (1948), pp. 189 - 190, 1691.

Christiaan Huygens

#Distance Quotes #Squares Quotes #Gravity Quotes

“Read. You don't have to read me. But just read. Read the best people. Everybody's trying to do the same thing, which is keep you turning pages. Everyone does it a different way. But we all want you to understand [our books].”
“I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.”
“We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.”
“The Department of Justice is committed to asking one central question of everything we do: What is the right thing to do? Now that can produce debate, and I want it to be spirited debate. I want the lawyers of America to be able to call me and tell me: Janet, have you lost your mind?”

Source : "Janet Reno's Choice". Janet Reno's speech before the American Law Institute in Philadelphia, PA, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 1994.
“Success and money can really be quite blinding.”
“it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher “Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life”
“Our favorite holding period is forever.”
“President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.”

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