Planets Quotes - Page 3

• We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fire, Discovery, Space

  "Space and the Spirit of Man". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1965.

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• Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two Nations, Political, Feelings

  Sybil bk. 2, ch. 5 (1845) See Kerner 1

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• Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times.

  Ben Jonson

  Stars, Men, Good Man

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.751

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• And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

  Sun Ra

  Space, Chicago, Outer Space

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• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  Thomas More

  Moon, Islands, Different

  Thomas More, Sir Saint (2008). “Utopia: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.152, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Science Fiction is not just about the future of space ships travelling to other planets, it is fiction based on science and I am using science as my basis for my fiction, but it's the science of prehistory - palaeontology and archaeology - rather than astronomy or physics.

  Jean M. Auel

  Journey, Space, Ships

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• During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky.

  Paul Nurse

  Stars, Winter, Sky

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• When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Thinking, Purpose, Earth

  "Speaking of Science Fiction". Book by Paul Walker, 1978.

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• I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Giving, Earth Day, Environmental

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• In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Important, Mobility, Earth

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• You have to see my show to believe that Im the only unique Nina Hagen on this planet.

  Nina Hagen

  Believe, Unique, Nina

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• It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

  George Gamow

  Stars, Men, Years

  George Gamow (2012). “The Creation of the Universe”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

  Nick Clooney

  Animal, May, Affection

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• I feel like we're all here on this planet, and intimacy is important. I can't bear small talk, it's awful. I want to get beyond that thing of discussing how the weather is a bit better today than it was yesterday, and how this is a nice restaurant. I want to get to what are the problems, what's really going on. Are you in love? Are you in a lot of pain? What's really going on in your life? I'm interested in that area, whether it's on stage or in real life.

  Simon Amstell

  Love, Life, Pain

  "Simon Amstell Overshares". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 23, 2012.

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• We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

  Ralph Merkle

  Limitation

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• Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.

  Richard Bach

  Nature, Civilization, Wrecks

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1989.

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• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Funny, Summer

  "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

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• If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Jobs

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• People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

  Iris Murdoch

  Nature, Flower, Sunshine

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.135, Penguin

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• Accordingly, since nothing prevents the earth from moving, I suggest that we should now consider also whether several motions suit it, so that it can be regarded as one of the planets. For, it is not the center of all the revolutions.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Moving, Earth, Suits

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

  Clyde Tombaugh

  Nice, Thinking, Would Be

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• Perhaps two million years ago the creatures of a planet in some remote galaxy faced a musical crisis similar to that which we earthly composers face today.

  George Crumb

  Years, Two, Musical

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• When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Paris, Aim

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• To think of these stars that you see overhead at night, these vast worlds which we can never reach. I would annex the planets if I could; I often think of that. It makes me sad to see them so clear and yet so far.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Cecil Rhodes (1902). “The last will and testament of Cecil John Rhodes: with elucidatory notes to which are added some chapters describing the political and religious ideas of the testator”

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• Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Science, People

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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