Pluto Quotes - Page 2

• Hey, just be grateful I’m old. When an Arcadian first starts time-walking, we only have about a three percent chance of success. I once ended up on Pluto. (Sebastian) Are you serious? (Channon) They’re not kidding about it being the coldest planet. (Sebastian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Grateful, Three, Hey

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• There's a ruthlessness to the city now that wasn't there before. I was in Dublin a few months ago, when we were shooting Breakfast on Pluto, and if I saw one kid throwing up on the street, I must have seen a hundred of them.

  Liam Neeson

  Kids, Cities, Dublin

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• As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the planet Pluto. We can't disprove it. But that doesn't mean the theory that there is a teapot is on level terms with the theory that there isn't.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Levels, Agnostic

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• Pluto's warm-up is a reminder that no matter where you are climate happens. It always has, it always will - with or without SUVs. And it should remind us to continue taking with an ever-increasing grain of salt these claims that your car acts as a weather machine.

  Chris Horner

  Weather, Car, Climate

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• Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.

  John Milton

  Iron, Soul, Tears

  'Il Penseroso' (1645) l. 105

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• Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Clouds, Years

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• It used to be said that Pluto is a misfit. But now we know Earth is the misfit. This is the most populous class of planet in our solar system and we have never sent a mission to this class.

  Alan Stern

  Class, Earth, Misfits

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• How is the soul profited by the strife of Hector, the arguments of Plato, the poems of Virgil, or the elegies of Ovid, who, with others like them, are now gnashing their teeth in the prison of the infernal Babylon, under the cruet tyranny of Pluto?

  Honorius Augustodunensis

  Plato, Scary, Soul

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• With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.

  Burt Rutan

  Running, Space, Luck

  "After the X Prize". www.wired.com. December 1, 2004.

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• When I was a little kid, we only knew about our nine planets. Since then, we've downgraded Pluto but have discovered that other solar systems and stars are common. So life is probably quite prevalent.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Stars, Kids, Littles

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• I’ve always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it’s been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you’ve given something planetary status it’s kind of mean to take it away.

  Jared Leto

  Sympathy, Mean, Thinking

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• Future's Pluto is my favorite album of the year. It's so emo. Future is the number one dude I'd love to produce for - every time I listen to the song he did with Rihanna, "Loveeeeeee Song", I'm like, "I should have produced that."

  Ryan Hemsworth

  Song, Emo, Should Have

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Car, Would Be, Neptune

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on killing Pluto: 'All I did was drive the getaway car'" by Thomas Houston, www.theverge.com. March 26, 2012.

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• All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Country, Attachment, America

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• If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is 4km away, and the next nearest star is in Tokyo. Now shrink Pluto's orbit into a coffee cup; then our Milky Way Galaxy fills North America.

  Wayne Hays

  New York, Stars, Coffee

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• We sat in silence, both of us looking up at the stars. He was probably envisioning a machine headed for Pluto. I wished i was on that machine.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Stars, Silence, Machines

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• The Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn. In her train followed hundreds and thousands and hundreds of thousands of thousands of restless, rolling Stones . . . to Saturn . . . to Uranus, to Pluto . . . rolling on out to the stars . . . outward bound to the ends of the Universe.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Rolling, Stones

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• But I bring it up to let you know that this is the way I feel right now. Like Pluto and Jupiter are aligned with the earth and I'm floating.

  Jennifer Niven

  Jupiter, Floating, Earth

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.234, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Moon, Six, Doe

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• Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, People, Because I Can

  "Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson's one-man mission". "60 minutes" with Charlie Rose, www.cbsnews.com. March 22, 2015.

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• How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

  Joaquin Andujar

  Baseball, Stupid, Yugoslavia

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