Inspirational Quote by John Milton

Before 1995, the only planets we knew about were the planets in our solar system.

— Debra Fischer

They are all up — the innumerable stars— And hold their place in heaven. ... There they stand, Shining in order, like a living…

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“More than 619,000 minor planets have been discovered in the Solar System.”

— IP Factly

Young man, I am afraid you are wasting your time. If there were any more planets they would have been found long before this.

— Clyde Tombaugh

Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even…

— Paul Davies

There they stand, the innumerable stars, shining in order like a living hymn, written in light.

— Nathaniel Parker Willis

“I read in the paper yesterday that astronomers believe there are planets out there that don't ride on a rail around a star like…

— Josiah Bancroft

Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.

— Bahá'u'lláh

The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you…

— Thomas Mallon

The solar system is off center and consequently man is too ...

— Harlow Shapley