Orbit Quotes - Page 7

• Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around earth.

  Steve Jurvetson

  People, Flying, Cost

  "Here's Why Investor Steve Jurvetson Saved Elon Musk's Space Dreams". Interview with Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com. September 14, 2012.

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• She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Children, Would Be, Solitary

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• E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)

  Galileo Galilei

  Moving, Doe, Earth

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• Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres - and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Afar, Gazing, Looks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.

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• She was an absolute genius as a comedic actress, with an extraordinary sense for comedic dialogue. It was a God-given gift. Believe me, in the last fifteen years there were ten projects that came to me, and I'd start working on them and I'd think, 'It's not going to work, it needs Marilyn Monroe.' Nobody else is in that orbit; everyone else is earthbound by comparison.

  Billy Wilder

  Believe, Thinking, Years

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• Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

  Mike Brown

  Bully, Neptune, Pluto

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

  Hank Azaria

  Responsibility, Our Family, Whatever Happens

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Renormalization is just a stop-gap procedure. There must be some fundamental change in our ideas, probably a change just as fundamental as the passage from Bohr's orbit theory to quantum mechanics. When you get a number turning out to be infinite which ought to be finite, you should admit that there is something wrong with your equations, and not hope that you can get a good theory just by doctoring up that number.

  Paul Dirac

  Ideas, Numbers, Fundamentals

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• The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling Earth until the Sun turns into a Red Giant, about five billion years from now.

  Trevor Paglen

  Years, Civilization, Giants

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• Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, People, Thanks

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound of anything into near earth orbit. That is your weight in gold. It costs about $100,000 a pound to put you on the moon. And it costs $1,000,000 a pound to put you on Mars.

  Michio Kaku

  Thinking, Moon, Space

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• Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowledge, values, critical exchange and civic literacy.

  Henry Giroux

  Space, Torn Apart, Retreat

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I will free NASA from the restriction of serving primarily as a logistics agency for low-earth orbit activity.

  Donald Trump

  Agency, Earth, Logistics

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances" by Aaron Blake, www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story that orbits the literal prose must happen in the reader's imagination. Who knows, maybe the dwindling attention spans means a lucrative future for short story writers.

  Matthew Healy

  Mean, Imagination, Story Writers

  Source: blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu

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• For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight. This one is almost in a category completely different than the previous two, specifically to live in on the space station for six months, to command a space ship and to fly a new rocket ship.

  Chris Hadfield

  Years, Space Flight, Two

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• Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all those folks go-that's three-eighths of an inch above a schoolroom globe, just FYI. That's not very far from Earth. Yes, you are off Earth, but you're not really going anywhere yet. The moon was the only real destination.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Real, Moon, Space

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less that God wishes - that every particle of spray that dashes against the steamboat has its orbit, as well as the sun in the heavens - that the chaff from the hand of the winnower is steered as the stars in their course. The creeping of an aphid over the rosebush is as much fixed as the march of the devastating pestilence - the fall of...leaves from a poplar is as fully ordained as the tumbling of an avalanche.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Stars, Moving, Fall

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1857). “Sermons of the Rev. C.H. Spurgeon: Second series”, p.201

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• I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in so many more Earthlings being able to experience the transformative power of space flight.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Space Flight, Development

  "NASA's Far-Out New Plans", February 02, 2010.

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• Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Home, Moon, Comfort

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• It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all the resources that they put together. And I'm just a little skeptical that that's going to be done by the private sector without making use of what has been done by the government.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Government, Together, Three

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Interview, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• Let man then contemplate nature in full and lofty majesty, and turn his eyes away from the mean objects which surround him. Let him look at the dazzling light hung aloft as an eternal lamp to lighten the universe; let him behold the earth, a mere dot compared with the vast circuit which that orb describes, and stand amazed to find that the vast circuit itself is but a very fine point compared with the orbit traced by the starts as they roll their course on high.

  Blaise Pascal

  Mean, Eye, Men

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• I feel we're on pretty solid ground in interpreting orbit around the sun as the primary driving force behind ice-age glaciation. The relationship is just too clear and consistent to allow reasonable doubt.

  George Kukla

  Ice, Doubt, Age

  "Despite Global Warming, Scientists Say to Expect Another Ice Age—In 5,000 Years". George Kukla's remarks at the international symposium convened by the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, www.columbia.edu. February 25, 2000.

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• While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.

  Louise Wilder

  Littles, World, Forget

  Louise Beebe Wilder (1997). “What Happens in My Garden”, Hartley & Marks

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• There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.

  Aleister Crowley

  Stars, Principles, Goes On

  Aleister Crowley (1975). “The Commentaries of AL: Being the Equinox Volume V, No. 1”, Weiser Books

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• Phil Taylor's got the consistency of a planet ... and he's in a darts orbit!

  Sid Waddell

  Consistency, Darts, Planets

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