Orbit Quotes

160 quotes by 135 authors

'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander orbits and universal… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of… — Arthur C. Clarke
One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided… — Arthur C. Clarke
When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with a golf club… — Mickey Wright
Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity… — James Hutton
This success permits us to hope that after thirty or forty years of observation on the new Planet [Neptune], we may employ it, in its… — Urbain Le Verrier
I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth… — Wally Schirra
When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you… — Bruce Barton
Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than… — Raymond Loewy
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the rivers, the vastness… — Saint Augustine
If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through the heavens, each… — Arthur Conan Doyle
It followed us during half of our orbit. We observed it on the light side, and when we entered the shadow side, it disappeared completely.… — Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasyev
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit of the eye,… — Alastair Reynolds
Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit. — Alastair Reynolds
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism â€” a sort of religious denial of God. It… — Thomas Paine
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet… — John Dickinson
It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the… — Clifford D. Simak

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