As I soon discovered, gravity could be either friend or foe.
BUILT when Sir Isaac Newton was discovering gravity, St Paul's Cathedral was London's tallest building for 250 years.
Mehmet Yilmaz, of the Hurriyet newspaper, suggested that Erdogan's next claim should be that a Muslim, rather than Isaac Newton, discovered gravity.
In an interview with The Paris Review in 2010, Franzen described discovering "Gravity's Rainbow": "It was like getting the flu to read that book.
It may sound trite, but if the man who discovered gravity didn't know that things go down as well as up..
So, when conceiving this condensed history of the world, it's obvious what was going through director Irwin Allen's mind: what could possibly be funnier than Isaac Newton discovering gravity not by a single apple falling on his head but, wait for it, an entire harvest of them?
Having a birthday on Christmas puts Ms. Vezza, 44, a food stylist from Madison, N.J., on the same calendar page with Sir Isaac Newton, who discovered gravity; with Clara Barton, who founded the American Red Cross; and with Humphrey Bogart, who would have celebrated his 101st today.
But also because there must be far more interesting fictions to weave around him than that he discovered gravity after being whacked on the head by an apple. .
A parable is a quirky anecdote, usually false, that future generations will love to retell regardless of its veracity, such as "Sir Isaac Newton discovered gravity when an apple fell on his head" or "Archimedes ran naked through the streets shouting 'Eureka!' " or "Einstein disproved cold fusion with the help of Tim Robbins and Meg Ryan".
