A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“On the face of it mass visions, such as the report that seventy thousand pilgrims at Fatima in Portugal in 1917 saw… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe,… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The truth is I try to show up each day available to do the work that God or whatever it is that's… — David Milch Copy Share Image
“That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“My arm draped her shoulder; we both felt safe, as if we were a complete solar system unto ourselves, dangling in the… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If consciousness is the ground of being rather than an epiphenomenon of physical processes, we may find that a basic question asked… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
If our solar system is not unusual, then there are so many planets in the universe that, for example, they outnumber the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“No one knew where the other six droplets had gone. Trisolaris claimed that the six droplets had left the Solar System to… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky 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
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“NASA are idiots. They want to send canned meat to Mars!” Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, aggressively plonks his glass on… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“Our civilization has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe… — George Wald 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
“If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is conventional wisdom now that anything built by the government will be a disaster. But the two "Voyager" spacecraft were built… — Carl Sagan 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
“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
Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
