I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider… — David Lehman Copy Share Image
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle";… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you. — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented -… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
There is a project that's underway called the interplanetary Internet. It's in operation between Earth and Mars. It's operating on the International… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me,… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When we're on the space station, we orbit the Earth 16 times per day, which means we're constantly moving to and away… — Thomas Marshburn Copy Share Image
We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down. — Eric Topol Copy Share Image
Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The… — George Kukla Copy Share Image
And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
Really, Rachel looked like a sun, bright and exuding energy, holding us two moons in a parallel orbit by the sheer force… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a… — Loretta Chase Copy Share Image
E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique,… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
The nice thing about asteroids is that once you've found them, and once you have a good solid orbit on them, you… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a… — Yahoo Serious Copy Share Image
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is… — Robert L. Devaney Copy Share Image