Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I'm just a guy on a planet, orbiting a sun, surrounded by a vast space extending in every direction.”

— Paul Uyttebrouck

“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who set the planets in motion.”

— Isaac Newton

“The sun bends space around itself, and Earth does not turn around it because of a mysterious force but because it is racing directly…

— Carlo Rovelli

“ Newton supposed that the case of the planet was similar to that of [a ball spun around on the end of an elastic…

— William Kingdon Clifford

“Pluto is at a point in its orbit where it’s actually closer to the sun than Neptune,”

— Ken Lozito

“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the law of…

— Isaac Newton

“Kepler and Newton represent a critical transition in human history, the discovery that fairly simple mathematical laws pervade all of Nature; that the same…

— Carl Sagan

“An Astronomer is to tell where the planets are. Then an Astrologer is to interpret what the location of those planets mean for a…

— Mitta Xinindlu

Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.

— Johannes Kepler

“E pur si muove. (Albeit It does move.) [ What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth…

— Galileo Galilei

“You’ve been orbiting my life like a minor planet — no atmosphere, no gravity, just enough proximity to feel important without ever being relevant.”

— Niedria D. Kenny

“The sun of God's glory was made to shine at the center of the solar system of our soul. And when it does, all…

— John Piper