law of gravitation

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Meaning

(physics) the law that states any two bodies attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

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To consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Edward Weston

Before a science can develop principles, it must possess concepts. Before a law of gravitation could be formulated, it was necessary to have the notions of "acceleration” and "weight.”. Herbert Simon

Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation. Anu Garg

A precept claiming infallibility should certainly possess the universality of the law of gravitation and the perfection of the arithmetical table. If it fails to possess these undeviating qualities, its imperfection is self-evident and its value either greatly diminished or useless. Joseph Lewis

Some mechanism seems to be needed, whereby either gravitation creates matter, or all the matter in the universe conspires to define a law of gravitation. Arthur Eddington

Both the law of inertia and the law of gravitation contain a numerical factor or a constant belonging to matter, which is called mass. Willem de Sitter

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