Solar System Quotes
151 Solar System quotes by 121 unique authors
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Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if…
— Sarah Zettel
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If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be…
— Miranda July
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place…
— Carl Sagan
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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every…
— Sherman Alexie
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Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up…
— Paulo Coelho
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So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least…
— Carl Sagan
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In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history.
— Carl Sagan
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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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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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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
Who Wrote These Solar System Quotes
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