There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit. — Donald E. Brownlee Copy Share Image
The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it. — Max Bill Copy Share Image
Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit! — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
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
Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you. — Hank Azaria 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
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Her satellite made one full orbit around Planet Earth every sixteen hours. It was a prison that came with an endlessly breathtaking… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Those are the things in the water that keep the moon in orbit. I've never quite understood just how they work. You… — Matthew Goldman Copy Share Image
Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I've been very happy with Orbit and am thrilled that they're giving me more chances to explore my creative visions. — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and… — Oscar Wilde 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
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit… — Alastair Reynolds 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
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
If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from… — Marcus Tullius Cicero 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
Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and… — Gregory Maguire 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
Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went through, is now like something from the… — Haruki Murakami 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
Knowledge was always the power that kept the Universe in its place and the stars turning in their orbits. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." (Ellen Ripley)” — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
But every crew that makes it to orbit is lucky. Spaceflight's not easy. — Anne McClain Copy Share Image
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all… — David Bottoms Copy Share Image
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly… — Mark Kelly 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
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