Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
“Four houndred billion suns spiraling through space together. Our solar system just one grain on that galactic carousel. The carousel itself a… — Elizabeth Fama Copy Share Image
“When Herschel saw Flamsteed’s “star” drift against the background stars, he announced—operating under the unwitting assumption that planets were not on the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
“In 1955, a little more than four years after leaving a TV studio in Hollywood, signals bearing the first sound and images… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“If the rocky ejecta from an impact hails from a planet with life, then microscopic fauna could have stowed away in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
“No, no -- no pity, please," said Rumfoord, stepping back, afraid of being touched. "It's a very good thing, really. I'll be… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“And under all this vast illusion of the cosmopolitan planet, with its empires and its Reuter's agency, the real life of man… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Consider now the primal scene of education in the modern elementary school. Let us assume that a teacher wishes to inform a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His laws changed all of physics and astronomy. His laws made it possible to calculate the mass of the sun and planets.… — Walter Lewin Copy Share Image
“When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Michał Grynberg, ed., Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto, trans. Philip Boehm (London: Granta Books, 2003), p. 46.… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“In this it is similar to the problem of the solar system. By a complex, confusing, and almost contradictory mathematical process, by… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
“About 4.6 billion years ago, a great swirl of gas and dust some 24 billion kilometres across accumulated in space where we… — Bill Bryson 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
“More than 619,000 minor planets have been discovered in the Solar System.” — IP Factly Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
“No matter how secret a particular satellite was, it had to obey the same laws of physics as the rest of the… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“Voyages to the outer solar system are controlled from a single place on the planet Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Small bodies in our solar system, like comets and asteroids, help us understand how the solar system formed and provide opportunities to… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space… — Jeri Ryan Copy Share Image
I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon.… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
“We have been installing solar power to numerous satisfied customers diagonally Australia for the past 3 years. Renewable energy sources setup in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning.… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
'Shrapnel' is based on the idea that we do colonize the solar system, but it's not clean and optimistic. The haves are… — Nick Sagan Copy Share Image
Our best shot at finding life in our solar system might be to look at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mars,… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“from publicly available documents. But now it is also evident that when the mists of leaks, rumors, and denials are pierced, if… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can… — Jeff Bezos 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
“Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
“Newton's laws specifically state that, while the gravity of a planet gets weaker and weaker the farthest from it you travel, there… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The ancient Egyptian calendar is Precessionally Sexagesimal (Besides being theologically/decanally decimal). That means that the toggling between its "enhanced" Civil Calendar (i.e.,… — Ibrahim Ibrahim Copy Share Image
“It is not easy to run a shipping line between destinations that not only change their positions by millions of kilometers every… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I think most of my approach to life has been like that, to find order in chaos, to be in the middle… — RZA Copy Share Image
