Orbits Quotes

30 quotes by 28 authors

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
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
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
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
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
Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one… — David Lehman
We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take… — David Bottoms
What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions… — C. Wright Mills
The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon… — John F. Kennedy
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky . . . has freed you from the fetters of… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which His hand has drawn. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had to have been… — Neal A. Maxwell
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the distance, like the… — Mohsin Hamid
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together… — Nicolaus Copernicus
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops… — Quentin Crisp
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then dispersing digital bits… — Susan Orlean
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their… — Haruki Murakami

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