As far as I'm concerned, Enceladus has become the go-to place in our solar system for issues bearing on extraterrestrial life. It's… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“In that case, on behalf of Earthlife, I urge that, with full knowledge of our limitations, we vastly increase our knowledge of… — Carl Sagan 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
Among the plausible niches for extraterrestrial life in our solar system, the clouds of Venus are among the most accessible and the… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the world would be a better place… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
“So. Our little pearl of warmth, our spinning orrery of lives, our island, our beloved solar system, our hearth and home, tight… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
“These days, there seems to be nowhere left to explore. Victims of their very success, the explorers now, pretty much, stay home.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“You have no idea how engrossing such a profession may become. Just as the blacksmith says: 'By hammer and hand all Art… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are… — Regina Spektor Copy Share Image
A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is… — John Templeton Copy Share Image
“It is now almost possible to assign color combinations, based on the colors of clouds and sky, to every planet in the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Voyager found Saturn to be a planet with a complex interior, atmosphere, and magnetosphere. In its rings - a vast, gleaming disk… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I do not expect NASA to go out and build settlements and colonies. I do not expect them to give SpaceX all… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star… — Henry M. Morris Copy Share Image
We are not learning to view ourselves as an advanced, evolving civilization. That is what we really must learn to do, in… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Earth’s Moon is about 1/400th the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 1/400th as far from us, making the Sun… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years their might will increase to the extent… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was… — Alan Stern Copy Share Image
“The Boreal World ‘From a satellite orbiting high above Earth, the taiga appears as a dark mantle draped across Earth’s shoulders, a… — Ray Mears Copy Share Image
The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where… — Michael Coren Copy Share Image
In the first place a philosophical proposition must be general. It must not deal specially with things on the surface of the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It changes your perspective to be able to look out the window and see the planet. One of the thoughts that I… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
“You have been my friend in the cosmos; you have been my only friend on this planet - the only soul to… — H.P. Lovecraft 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
“However, Galileo got into trouble when he turned his telescope toward a wider horizon. The discovery of the four moons orbiting Jupiter… — Andrew Thomas Copy Share Image
Cassini was an international undertaking, led by NASA and the European Space Agency and designed to be, in every dimension, a dramatic… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief and sedentary hiatus we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of… — Carl Sagan 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
“It is certain that such a revolution in thought - that is, such an expansion of consciousness, such an evolution of intelligence… — Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
“Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the Catholic Encyclopedia ("CE") acknowledges that there is "inference" that the Egyptians were aware of the heliocentricity of the solar system,… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
![“I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork ... insofar as nearly all the manifold movements are carried out by means of a…” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/452/johannes-kepler-4278_aim_i-am-much-occupied-with-the-investigatio_1011205.jpg)
