Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“In our own solar system, for example, everything that is not the Sun adds up to less than one fifth of one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
“My personal definition of confidence is to keep believing that the stars in the solar system are actually watching and applauding you.” — Johnnie Dent Jr Copy Share Image
Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Don't forget, as you enjoy your mild spring days and peaceful summer evenings, how lucky you are to live in the temperate… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Which is more improbable - that the trillions of solar systems in the known universe exploded from something smaller than a pinhead… — David Hayden Copy Share Image
Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There's almost certain to be small, rocky… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
“All the labours of ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noon-day brightness of human genius, are destined to extinciton… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Why would you need to expand beyond the solar system if you already have access to all the information you need, and… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
All the atoms we are made of are forged from hydrogen in stars that died and exploded before our solar system formed.… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The UFO phenomenon and saga, the first contacts with aliens from extraordinarily advanced civilizations beyond our solar system, and extraterrestrials’ messages, all… — Maximillien de Lafayette Copy Share Image
“When Herschel saw Flamsteed’s “star” drift against the background stars, he announced—operating under the unwitting assumption that planets were not on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000… — Deke Slayton Copy Share Image
“Four houndred billion suns spiraling through space together. Our solar system just one grain on that galactic carousel. The carousel itself a… — Elizabeth Fama Copy Share Image
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
“Odd, how life makes twists and turns. I never would have guessed that I’d end up where I am now, but I… — Angela N. Blount Copy Share Image
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“The one thing we know is that planet Earth does keep moving in the direction of the constellation Leo at a rate… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Experiments with the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite, which was launched in 1989, showed in 1990 with overwhelming precision what was already… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“But of all that he saw, what gripped him the most were the light flashes in the darkened atmosphere that he had… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
“It goes something like this: I am one person among 6.5 billion people on Earth at the moment. That's one person among… — John C. Parkin Copy Share Image
“Sayari yetu hujulikana kama Dunia na jua letu hujulikana kama Sol. Dunia imo ndani ya mfumo wa jua wa Sol. Mfumo wa… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Newton's laws specifically state that, while the gravity of a planet gets weaker and weaker the farthest from it you travel, there… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A grain of sand, a mountain or a whole solar system will move the same way with a faithful heart. — Eliseo Acosta Copy Share Image
We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
I think Pluto has to be considered among the places in the solar system that are possible homes for life. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
If you're creating a whole universe, even if it's a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Exploiting the moon, sooner or later, is going to happen: It is the perfect platform from which to jump to the rest… — Robert Bigelow Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What happened? What… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The geysering on Enceladus is the most astonishing phenomenon we have in our solar system. — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
