Solar Quotes
331 Solar quotes by 241 unique authors
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.
— James Dashner
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I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are…
— Nora Roberts
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While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only…
— Jodi Picoult
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If Eastlake High School were the universe, I would be one of the moons circling Planet Emma, constantly hidden by her shadow, and glad to…
— Rachel Vincent
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Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing…
— Simone Elkeles
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Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth.…
— Brian Cox
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I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journey to the far end…
— Makoto Shinkai
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Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that…
— Ayn Rand
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Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric…
— Robert E. Ornstein
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It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the…
— Philip Pullman
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Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to…
— Charles Darwin
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Wind and solar power are land-intensive, a green sin, but not energy-dense, and affordable only when heavily subsidized. And wind power must be supplemented with…
— Mark McKinnon
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I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms…
— Bertrand Piccard
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The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar…
— Paul Johnson
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Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.
— Jeremy Grantham
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My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally…
— Steven Holl
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I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.
— Martin Rees
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We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.
— Edgar Mitchell
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We are not learning to view ourselves as an advanced, evolving civilization. That is what we really must learn to do, in due course, if…
— Edgar Mitchell
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We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape…
— Rusty Schweickart
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Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar orbit for the very first…
— Rusty Schweickart
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The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.
— Stephen Hawking
Who Wrote These Solar Quotes
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