Earth and sun Quote by Jerry Merritt

“At the altitude of about 23,000 miles the satellite takes 23 hours and 56 minutes to orbit Earth. Earth takes 23 hours and 56 minutes to rotate.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The one thing we know is that planet Earth does keep moving in the direction of the constellation Leo at a rate of 390…

— Henning Genz

“While spinning daily on its own axis, the earth also orbits the sun (again in an anti-clockwise direction) on a path which is slightly…

— Graham Hancock

“As you are surely aware, our planet is turning on its axis around and around in space. It turns slowly, however, making one complete…

— Tom Robbins

“Sometimes the gap between wrong and right is so negligible that we ignore it altogether. We pretend that the length of a day is…

— Konstantin Kakaes

Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The Earth revolves around the Sun, not you.

— Matthew Donnell

“obviously it matters little if we think of the earth as turning about on its axis, or if we view it at rest while…

— Ernst Mach

“The Sun is 93 million miles from Earth. In 1610, Galileo observed sunspots on its surface, proving that the Sun was rotating and at…

— Stewart Stafford

“Out in our neck of the woods-26,000 light-years (2.5 X 10^20 meters) from the galactic center-stars follow orbital paths that take them around the…

— Caleb Scharf

That planet Earth turns, slowly.

— Owl City

Moreover, since the sun remains stationary, whatever appears as a motion of the sun is really due rather to the motion of the earth.

— Nicolaus Copernicus