Billions Quote by John Wagner

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the…

— Sunita Williams

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

— Alan Watts

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some…

— Stephen Hawking

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will…

— Seth Shostak

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

— Abraham Lincoln

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

— Sally Ride

Same sky we look up to, same planet were livin' too. I guess, it's not that far...me & you...

— Anonymous

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

— Douglas Adams

Planets are too dim to be detected with existing equipment, far away, except in these very special circumstances where they're seen by their gravitational…

— Murray Gell-Mann

The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines,…

— Frank Borman

“The telescope, in enabling us to look far out into space, also allows us to look back in time. Light travels at about 186,000…

— Richard Kurin

The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth.

— Heidi Hammel