Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system. — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Oh, how small we were, in the grand scheme of it all. Our planet was but a speck in the midst of… — wildbow 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
This is what the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) represents. Experimental, explorational science. Learning about Mars as a new world. Discovering new things… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“Let's return to Archytas's staff and to the expanding Universe. A javelin that is thrown straight upward will drop back down a… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“[I]n science we have to be particularly cautious about 'why' questions. When we ask, 'Why?' we usually mean 'How?' If we can… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“Infinity fascinated her. How systems and universes could keep getting infinitely smaller in one direction and infinitely larger in another. How the… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
“she exuded the air of a woman used to spending her days glowing brightly at the centre of her own, personal solar… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
“In our own solar system, for example, everything that is not the Sun adds up to less than one fifth of one… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Once solved, the severe handicaps imposed on space exploration by the weight and chemical limitations of rockets would no longer apply. The… — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Exploiting the moon, sooner or later, is going to happen: It is the perfect platform from which to jump to the rest… — Robert Bigelow Copy Share Image
One thing that I find very unmotivating is the kind of Plan B argument: when Earth gets destroyed, you want to be… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where… — Benjamin Carson 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
We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most,… — Justin Trudeau Copy Share Image
We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid… — Rick Tumlinson 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
The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“But what did we really know, even of one another? We never thought of a future. Our small solar system - what… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just… — Stephen Jay Gould 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
