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Planets Quotes by Seth Shostak
- There is a point of view among astronomical researchers that is generally referred to as the Principle of Mediocrity. ... If the Sun and its…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have…
- 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…
- Scientists - who prefer explanations subject to laboratory tests - figure that everything we see today was as inevitable as wrinkles, once the Big Bang…
- 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…
More Planets Quotes
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're… — Margaret Atwood
- The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that. — Margaret Atwood
- Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets. — Margaret Atwood
- We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health… — Diane Ackerman
- We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the… — Dan Aykroyd
- Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere. — Richard Bach