Circumstances Quote by Murray Gell-Mann

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

— Sally Ride

For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes.…

— Andrew Gould

For a long time, we've worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes.…

— Andrew Gould

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic…

— Seth Shostak

There must be enormous numbers of planets around the stars in the many galaxies in our observable universe. We may be sure that wonderful…

— Jim Peebles

Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away.

— John Wagner

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

— Ralph Merkle

“The author explains the evidence for they would help from astronomy. He says that if planets are behaving in a way that cannot be…

— N.T. Wright

The bottom line is that finding orphan planets - small, faint, and located who-knows-where - is not for the faint of heart. The task…

— Seth Shostak

As our sensitivity improves, we are finally seeing planets with longer orbital periods, planetary systems that look more like our solar system.

— Debra Fischer

We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on…

— Carl Sagan

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