Earth Quote by Erasmus Darwin

“The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. [The first…

— Erasmus Darwin

“About 4.6 billion years ago, a great swirl of gas and dust some 24 billion kilometres across accumulated in space where we are now…

— Bill Bryson

When stars form a planet, they come in a bunch.

— Debra Fischer

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

— Anonymous

“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of…

— Isaac Newton

Kepler's blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.

— Debra Fischer

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

— Johannes Kepler

When we get out to other planets in the solar system, we'll use the gravitational pull of each planet to help launch us to…

— Jack Swigert

Our planet... consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb... Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable…

— James Lovelock

Thanks to the fact that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere, and invoking a bunch of Newtonian physics, you can deduce that our planet…

— Seth Shostak

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

— Christiaan Huygens

Discovering that our solar system has many more planets than we ever expected, and that most of them are ice dwarfs rather than like…

— Alan Stern