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It now seems logical that all the stars, like our own sun, must have formed with a system of planets around them.

— Debra Fischer

Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a…

— Robert E. Ornstein

Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting…

— Brian Cox

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so…

— Jeri Ryan

It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In the very beginning, we thought at best half.

— Frank Drake

It's ridiculous that our solar system, not to mention the universe outside of that, is extraordinarily well organized, to the point where we can…

— Benjamin Carson

Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the…

— Alan Stern

Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.

— George Ellery Hale

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they…

— Isaac Newton

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…

— Carl Sagan

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

— Poul Anderson