Planets Quotes

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I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves… — Dick Cavett
Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. But within the coming decades, we will understand dark… — Michio Kaku
I can remember at the age of about six being fascinated by the planets and learning all about Mars and Venus and things. — Richard Dawkins
If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it… — Stephen Hawking
I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God,… — Deb Caletti
The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of… — Seth Shostak
Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as… — Seth Shostak
The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and… — Seth Shostak
The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task is… — Seth Shostak
Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than… — Seth Shostak
It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have… — Seth Shostak
This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to… — Seth Shostak
Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang… — Seth Shostak
The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even… — Seth Shostak
The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask… — Marianne Williamson
We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with… — Dimitar Sasselov
Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might… — Dimitar Sasselov
Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth. — Dimitar Sasselov
Ironically, it is only when disaster strikes that the shuttle makes the headlines. Its routine flights attracted less media interest than unmanned probes to the… — Martin Rees
To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no… — C. V. Raman

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