Planet Quotes

2666 quotes by 1619 authors

It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases… — Francis Galton
Le Verrier-without leaving his study, without even looking at the sky-had found the unknown planet [Neptune] solely by mathematical calculation, and, as it were, touched… — Camille Flammarion
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Evolution is a fact, as securely established as any in science, and he who denies it betrays woeful ignorance and lack of education, which likely… — Richard Dawkins
There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism. — Daniel Dennett
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
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
The historian of science may be tempted to claim that when paradigms change, the world itself changes with them. Led by a new paradigm, scientists… — Thomas Kuhn
I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole… — Robert Anton Wilson
The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man. — Carl Jung
This 3HO shall be the most important legacy on this planet for the Age of Aquarius. Sooner or later people will experience a tremendous amount… — Harbhajan Singh Yogi
That which you or I think is most unique about ourselves we hide. In ordinary discourse, in the normal state, we share our common self,… — Robert E. Quinn
In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even… — Goswami Kriyananda
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and… — Douglas Adams
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic… — Fred Hoyle
All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it, the more we feel it is too complex… — Harold Urey
I'm grateful for the opportunity to live on this beautiful and astonishing planet Earth. In the morning, I wake up with a sense of gratitude. — Earl Nightingale
Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us… — George Sand
There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable. — William Shakespeare

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