Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system. — Debra Fischer 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
While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved. — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well. — Alan Stern 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
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
We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
“There is a planet in the Solar System where the people are so stupid they didn't catch on for a million years… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“How minute I am. I am nothing. I am just a person in a building, in a street, in a city, in… — Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma Copy Share Image
“The Sun contains most of the mass of the solar system (99.9 percent) in a ball whose diameter is about 100 times… — Joanne Baker Copy Share Image
“Seemed like a fact of the universe that the closer you got to anything, the worse it looked. Take the most beautiful… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
Let's find a new way to think about the entire taxonomy of solar system objects, and not clutch to this concept of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly,… — Daniel Keidl Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, a teacher once said that there existed 195 countries in the world. Astronomers lay claim to there… — Agnes Chew Copy Share Image
“Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a… — Richard Holmes 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
“If humanity were capable of being satisfied, then they'll still be living in trees and eating bugs out of one another's fur.… — James S.A. Corey Copy Share Image
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“I have this -- here’s this thing where it’s going to sound sappy to you. I have this unbelievably like five-year-old’s belief… — david foster wallace 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
When I grew up as a kid, we didn't know there were any other planets outside of our own solar system. It… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
“I Name you Echthroi. I Name you Meg. I Name you Calvin. I Name you Mr. Jenkins. I Name you Proginoskes. I… — Madeleine L'Engle 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
“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
“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
“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
“Anyway. I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can… — Jonathan Safran Foer 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
Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto. — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival. — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
