Solar System Quotes

• When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

  Kalpana Chawla

  Strong Women, Stars, Land

  "What? Is! the Meaning of Life" by Dream Catcher Paul Fisette, (p. 79), 2008.

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• There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men.

  George Wald

  Men, Earth, Whole

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• It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Stupid, Race

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• In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

  Martin Rees

  Stars, Children, Light

  "Small, Cheap and a Giant Leap for Britain". www.theguardian.com. December 28, 2003.

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• The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Anxiety, Reputation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.423

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• Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Space, Overcoming

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (2004). “The Aims Of Astronautics”, p.38, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

  Bob Dylan

  Might, Wells, Has Beens

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.

  Sarah Zettel

  Thinking, Would Be, Expansion

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• Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

  Elon Musk

  Mars

  "Elon Musk Wants to Put Man on Mars in '12 to 15 Years'" by David Wright, abcnews.go.com. August 6, 2012.

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• I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Years, People

  Controversial address vaults Hopkins' Carson into political arena, The Baltimore Sun, articles.baltimoresun.com. February 18, 2013.

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• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  Walter Lang

  Moon, Two, Mars

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• Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

  Adam Riess

  Dark, Energy, Strange

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• Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians.

  Sarah Zettel

  Doors, Way, Next

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• An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.

  Steven Pinker

  Moon, Atoms, Ciphers

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• Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt.

  Sarah Zettel

  Guilt, Expansion, Glory

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• Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man.

  George Gaylord Simpson

  Men, Important, Sides

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• If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

  Poul Anderson

  Exploration, Reason, Ifs

  Poul Anderson (2008). “The Van Rijn Method”, p.54, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Light, Interesting

  "Isaac Newton: Inventor, Scientist, and Teacher". Book by John Hudson Tiner, 1975.

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• We all live in our own world. But if you look up at the starry sky - you'll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Sky, Different, Looks

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• A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life.

  Carl Sagan

  Home, Responsibility, Our World

  "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Documentary (1990 Update). Episode 6: "Traveller's Tales", 1990.

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• The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

  Paul Davies

  Ocean, Islands, Space

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.4, Basic Books

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• Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.

  Brian Cox

  Dream, Past, Journey

  Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen (2011). “Wonders of the Universe”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• If you took all the sand from all the beaches, all the desserts, and all the oceans and called that the Universe, our whole solar system would be less than one grain of sand.

  Seth Shostak

  Beach, Ocean, Would Be

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• But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.

  Stephen Hawking

  Powerful, Energy, Climate

  Stephen W. Hawking (1990). “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes”, Bantam

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• Right now I am a passenger on space vehicle Earth zooming about the Sun at 60,000 miles per hour somewhere in the solar system.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Space, Earth, Sun

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