A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

Newton discovered levity, not gravity. He discovered the ex-fluence of the moon. So far as NASA is concerned, the attractions of the moon still over-ride all the traditional thoughts of dignity and gravity.
“Kahn-frontation”, unpublished essay written for Newsweek, June (1969), LAC: MG 31, D 156, Vol. 134, File 5, p 1
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↪ Also at #4436, #6281
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