The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Infinity fascinated her. How systems and universes could keep getting infinitely smaller in one direction and infinitely larger in another. How the… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I think that, a lot of times, people have this idea that the solar system is entirely explored, that we have sent… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a… — John Dalton Copy Share Image
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government… — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
Music can be all things to all men. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
“If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a… — Richard Holmes Copy Share Image
“So what, simply put, is the Third Covenant? It is the recalibration, the reawakening of that which is truly human, truly holy.… — Albert J. LaChance Copy Share Image
In the next century or two, we humans will have planet-finder telescopes that span our solar system with mirrors strewn from here… — Geoffrey Marcy Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The discovery in 1846 of the planet Neptune was a dramatic and spectacular achievement of mathematical astronomy. The very existence of this… — James R Newman Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that the search for planets is motivated by the search for life. Humans are interested in whether or not… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Things have becone even more mysterious. We have recently discovered that when we make observations at still larger scales, corresponding to billions… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Where is hell, anyway? Ancient man believed that hell was underground, in the center of the earth, where it was hot. This… — John Trigilio Jr Copy Share Image
“What did happen to Mars, anyway? Our next door neighbor, the Red Planet, apparently was once covered with flowing rivers. What happened… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“The transmission from the solar system ended. The deciphering computer now ran uselessly. The post was once again only hearing the noise… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“Eventually they climb sixteen steps into the Gallery of Mineralogy. The guide shows them a gate from Brazil and violet amethysts and… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Let's return to Archytas's staff and to the expanding Universe. A javelin that is thrown straight upward will drop back down a… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The cosmos is three times as old as Earth. During most of creation's 14 billion year history, our solar system wasn't around.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“I am not dying," said Rumfoord. "I am merely taking my leave of the solar system. And I am not even doing… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm absolutely positive about human survival. We will continue to develop our civilisation and expand not just on Earth, but also across… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite… — Simone Elkeles 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
“Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most,… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Every observation that we make, every mission that we send to various places in the solar system is just taking us one… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
