While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit. — Louise Wilder Copy Share Image
If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical. Periodicity rules over the mental experience of man, according to the… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while… — Martin Rees 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
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
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
In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ… — Urbain Le Verrier Copy Share Image
What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major… — Guillermo Gonzalez 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
NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I am proud to find, from two astronomical observations, that Chapel Hill lies right in the orbit of Jupiter and his satellites,… — William Hooper Copy Share Image
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
No greater glory can be handed down than to conquer the barbarian, to recall the savage and the pagan to civility, to… — Richard Hakluyt Copy Share Image
Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side,… — Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev Copy Share Image
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
The Russians did much bigger space launch vehicles for launching satellites and for getting men in orbit. They did that much sooner… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
