The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart.… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Mr. McCleod: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies… — Laura Kasischke Copy Share Image
According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
All was predicted by the mathematical cycles of the Mayan calendars. -- It will change --everything will change. Mayan Day-keepers view the… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
Henceforth the cosmos, once a swarm of blazing galaxies, each a swarm of stars, was composed wholly of star-corpses. These dark grains… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
It's also hard for people to contend with the difficult possibility that we are simply overadvanced fungi and bacteria hurtling through a… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The problem is, or rather one of the problems, for there are many, a sizeable proportion of which are continually clogging up… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
First, we are born in the same galaxy. Born of the same species. Our lifetimes overlap. The meetings between humans are so… — Hikaru Nakamura Copy Share Image
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is one of 50 or 100 billion other galaxies in the universe. And with every step, every… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Since 1995, astronomers have found nearly two thousand confirmed planets around other stars. Some of these planets are similar to Earth in… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Stars that become supernovae start off at least eight times heavier than our sun. They're so short-lived that, even if they have… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
The story seems to be that almost every star has a planetary system... and, also, the definition of 'habitable zone' has expanded.… — Frank Drake Copy Share Image
But what force in the galaxy is stronger than she is?" "Indifference." Jerusha surprised herself with the answer. "Indifference, Gundhalinu, is the… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
'Crucible' was going to be a 'passing of the torch' story. So something that was big enough to be worthy of that,… — Troy Denning Copy Share Image
What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
From literature to ecology, from the escape velocity of galaxies to the greenhouse effect, from garbage disposal methods to traffic jams, everything… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We living things are a late outgrowth of the metabolism of our galaxy. The carbon that enters into our composition was cooked… — George Wald Copy Share Image
You could think of the galaxy as a sort of stove with lots of pots on it, and the pots are the… — Sandra Faber Copy Share Image
Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
One universe, four forces, billions of galaxies. The precision and complexity of our world is enough to make even the famous cosmologist… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and… — Eden Ahbez Copy Share Image
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know… — Walter Reisch Copy Share Image
Each galaxy, star, or person is the temporary owner of particles that have passed through the births and deaths of entities across… — Neil Shubin Copy Share Image
Excuse me, but I’ve been to some of the toughest zones in the galaxy to get my targets. And I have never… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
It is mind-boggling to me that the Almighty power created everything I see; the Bible says that God created the entire universe… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe - the creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
A chess master can keep track of more choices than the number of stars in the galaxy within an instant, but these… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
The central region of the Milky Way, known as the bulge, is stuffed with literally tens of billions of stars. And most… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Does the sun ask itself, "Am I good? Am I worthwhile? Is there enough of me?" No, it burns and it shines.… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“In a trillion or so years, anyone alive in our own galaxy may know nothing of other galaxies. Our observable universe will… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It's just a weird idea to me because each book is a complete universe unto itself, so why would I want this… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other… — Seth Shostak 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
