Planets Quotes
2655 quotes by 1577 authors
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This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there…
— Scott Carpenter
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No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no one…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if…
— Cecil Rhodes
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This planet is for everyone, borders are for no one. It's all about freedom.
— Benjamin Zephaniah
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From time immemorial History has decreed that territory on this Planet Earth belongs to those powerful enough to take it and determined enough to keep…
— Unknown Author
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And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist…
— Katherine Dunn
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Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special
— Murray Gell-Mann
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Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational effect
— Murray Gell-Mann
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The climate dice are now loaded. Some seasons still will be cooler than the long-term average, but the perceptive person should notice that the frequency…
— James Hansen
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I am really dedicated to understanding the planet/creature on which we live and know that means I must go beneath the sea to see 72…
— Robert Ballard
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Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to…
— Robert Ballard
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If it's a new planet, sign me up. I'm tired of driving around the block, boldly going where hundreds have gone before in orbit around…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Looking outward to the blackness of space, sprinkled with the glory of a universe of lights, I saw majesty-but no welcome. Below was a welcoming…
— Loren Acton
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Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.
— Nina Simone
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The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect ball-bearings. To my…
— James Lovelock
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My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
— Edgar Mitchell
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In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to…
— Jules Verne
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And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from…
— William Winwood Reade
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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making…
— Terence McKenna
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
— Sally Ride
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