Solar System Quotes
151 Solar System quotes by 121 unique authors
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It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do…
— Johannes Stark
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Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I…
— D. V. Ager
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I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else…
— Regina Spektor
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The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean…
— Paul Davies
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We're working to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring…
— Jeff Bezos
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I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that…
— Johannes Kepler
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Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All kinds of danger…
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not…
— Olaf Stapledon
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Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only…
— Robert Zubrin
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Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet,…
— Greg Bear
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I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer…
— Gordon Gee
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While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or…
— Krafft Arnold Ehricke
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From an entertainment point of view, the Solar System has been a bust. None of the planets turns out to have any real-estate potential, and…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting…
— Wilson Greatbatch
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As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as…
— Max Planck
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The reality is that while heliocentrism was discussed and often accepted within Catholic circles - it was effectively the only place where it could be…
— Michael Coren
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Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the…
— Paul Davies
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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
— Annie Dillard
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I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
— Bob Dylan
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Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
— Elon Musk
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An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar…
— Steven Pinker
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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
— Dan Quayle
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When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read…
— Simon Sinek
Who Wrote These Solar System Quotes
121 authors contributed a total of 151 Solar System Quotes, led by these top contributors: