Orbit Quotes · Page 2

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

— Philip Roth

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

— Robert Crippen

Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.

— Robert Crippen

Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.

— Baba Amte

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

— Mike Brown

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth,

— Steve Jurvetson

When the engine cut off and we were in orbit, it was surreal.

— Victor J. Glover

Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe…

— Duane G. Carey

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable…

— Leonard Read

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

— Eric Topol

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

Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings…

— Carolyn Porco

Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the…

— John Dickinson

The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a…

— Thomas Malthus

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

I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The C Mission was the first command and service module. The D Mission was the first mission involving a lunar module in…

— Gene Kranz

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The star S0-2 orbits around Sgr A* every 16 years and will go through its closest approach in 2018. That's an opportunity…

— Andrea M. Ghez

The earth turns on its orbit for You. The oceans ebb and flow for You. The birds sing for You. The sun…

— Rhonda Byrne

Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it…

— Michelle Grabner

When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating…

— Sally Ride

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens…

— Ben Parr

Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him.…

— Blaise Pascal

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

“While spinning daily on its own axis, the earth also orbits the sun (again in an anti-clockwise direction) on a path which…

— Graham Hancock

Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits…

— Saint Augustine

One of the most striking results of modern investigation has been the way in which several different and quite independent lines of…

— Henry Norris Russell

“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the…

— Isaac Newton

The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology,…

— Immanuel Velikovsky

And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of…

— Haruki Murakami

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

— Buzz Aldrin

No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

— Burt Rutan

We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

— Richard Branson

“NASA is the civilian face of a military space program.”

— Steven Magee

In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.

— Roxanne Roberts

I'm not going into infinity. I'm going into low earth orbit.

— Helen Sharman

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

— Brian Walker

Like a satellite in orbit, Apple is perpetually falling. It just happens to miss Earth every time.

— Horace Dediu