The geysering on Enceladus is the most astonishing phenomenon we have in our solar system. — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
A grain of sand, a mountain or a whole solar system will move the same way with a faithful heart. — Eliseo Acosta Copy Share Image
Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There's almost certain to be small, rocky… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system… — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly… — Johannes Stark Copy Share Image
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
“Le Verrier left the solar system larger than he found it - one both better and less completely understood.” — Thomas Levenson Copy Share Image
There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“Don't forget, as you enjoy your mild spring days and peaceful summer evenings, how lucky you are to live in the temperate… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system.… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“But it’s atheists who say that the world wasn’t made by anyone, and you say you’re not an atheist . . ."… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
If you were to stand on an asteroid in the main belt of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter in our solar system,… — Carrie Nugent Copy Share Image
To get to Earth from the edge of the solar system, depending on the time of year and the position of the… — Paul Cornell Copy Share Image
“She had seen Holden on the newsfeeds and reports. At the beginning of the war between Mars and the Belt, he had… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
“Jupiter's fly-by had been carried out with impeccable precision. Like a ball on a cosmic pool table, Discovery had bounced off the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In the next century or two, we humans will have planet-finder telescopes that span our solar system with mirrors strewn from here… — Geoffrey Marcy Copy Share Image
“So what, simply put, is the Third Covenant? It is the recalibration, the reawakening of that which is truly human, truly holy.… — Albert J. LaChance Copy Share Image
Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Truth changes with the season of our emotions. It is the shadow that moves with the phases of our inner sun. When… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Religion invents a problem where none exists by describing the wicked as also made in the image of god and the sexually… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“A few people liked to paint this drive as a weakness. A failing of the species. Humanity as the virus. The creature… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
“But of all that he saw, what gripped him the most were the light flashes in the darkened atmosphere that he had… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
“Experiments with the COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer) satellite, which was launched in 1989, showed in 1990 with overwhelming precision what was already… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“It goes something like this: I am one person among 6.5 billion people on Earth at the moment. That's one person among… — John C. Parkin Copy Share Image
“Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“[R]eligion was the race's first (and worst) attempt to make sense of reality. It was the best the species could do at… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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