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As a kid, I became a total SF geek. It started in the 5th grade with Asimov's 'Lucky Starr' series of what would now be called 'young adult' novels of adventures in the solar system.
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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
Light
Solar
Solar System
Distance
Earth
Sun
System
Atheism
See
Proper
Look
Did
Heat
Happen
Senseless
Right
Amount
Receive
Chance
No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.
Carl Sagan
Home
World
Solar
Perception
Nothing
Suitable
Other
Solar System
System
Powerful
Very
Human
Human Beings
Planet
Beings
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.
Annie Besant
History
Man
Natural
Impossible
Hero
Solar
Moon
Myth
Inevitable
Year
Positions
Changing
Relative
Way
Indeed
Sun
Easter
Dates
Point
Anniversary
Calculated
Calculating
Historical
Very
Festival
Fixing
Movable
The History Of
Event
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Dan Quayle
Time
Solar
Solar System
Enter
System
Human
Race
Human Race
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
You
Space
Solar
Stars
Solar System
System
Feel
Particular
Look
Piece
Any
Just
Galaxy
Land
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
Scott Adams
Future
Stupidity
Solar
Will
Focus
Power
Predict
Energy
Harnessing
Unlimited
Only
Clean
Learn
Around
How
Scientists
Source
Truly
Efforts
Flailing
Stop
Convert
Fuel
Planet
Eventually
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.
Elon Musk
Life
Science
Solar
Become
Solar System
System
Possible
Mars
Only
Where
Place
Without Jupiter cleaning out the early solar system, the Earth would be pock-marked with meteor collisions. We would suffer from asteroid impacts every day. CNN studios would probably be a gigantic crater it if wasn't for Jupiter.
Michio Kaku
Day
Cleaning
Every Day
Solar
Every
Asteroid
Solar System
Earth
System
Out
Gigantic
Would
Would-Be
Impacts
Studios
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Meteor
Jupiter
Suffer
Early
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Ralph Nader
Solar
Own
Energy
Sun
Opened
Industry
Because
Does
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Up
Oil
Oil Industry
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Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.
Annie Dillard
Beautiful
Death
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Solar
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