1651 Earth Quotes for You to Enjoy

The notion that anyone in the 21st century could take seriously the notion that the sun orbits the Earth, or that the Earth is the center of the universe, is almost unbelievable. Lawrence M. Krauss

Seriously Universe Earth Sun Unbelievable Could Take Almost Anyone Center Century Notion

When it comes to the things that people really want in science fiction - like space travel - the simplest things end up causing them not to happen. Humans are 100-pound bags of water, built to live on Earth. Lawrence M. Krauss

Travel Science People Water Space Live Earth Simplest Simplest Things Bags Like Science Fiction Built Causing End Up Want Fiction Happen Space Travel Them Really Things Humans

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both. Lawrence Osborne

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To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. Lee De Forest

Man Moon Controlling Field Wild Project Earth Alive Dream Worthy Observations Perhaps Make Him Return Scientific Passengers Rocket Jules Where Place Land Then Gravitational

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth. Len G. Murray

Day Somewhere Year Before Earth Supper Taking Days Hour After Burns Place January Many Each Each Year Night

It's true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren't really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it's the best. Leo Kottke

Best You Job Hell Think Earth Hooked Out Would Would-Be More Put True Instrument Get Really Your

I remember taking a space walk on the ISS. There I was, wrench in hand, tightening bolts on a new module. It was such a mundane task. But when I looked in one direction, there was Earth floating in vivid blues and greens. In the other direction, I could see the blackest black conceivable, punctured by unwavering pinpoints of starshine. Leroy Chiao

Remember Walk Space Black Other Earth See Vivid Blackest Wrench Direction Could Taking New Looked Unwavering Hand Task Greens Blues Floating Bolts Mundane

When I was born, the world's population was 3.5 billion. There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. By 2050, that's expected to rise to 9.4 billion. What's more, the Earth's resources aren't growing; they're decreasing - and rapidly. Lewis Gordon Pugh

People World Resources Earth Rapidly Born Rise More Expected Planet Decreasing Billion Population Growing Now

The uniformity of the earth's life, more astonishing than its diversity, is accountable by the high probability that we derived, originally, from some single cell, fertilized in a bolt of lightning as the earth cooled. Lewis Thomas

Life Diversity Single Earth Astonishing High Some More Lightning Accountable Than Cell Probability Uniformity Derived Originally Bolt

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon. Liberty Hyde Bailey

Life Dreams Time Good My Life Live Every Every Time Everything Saw Earth Has-Been Significant See More New Perhaps Been Continuous Privilege Did Meaning Fulfillment Appears

I think there's something about going on a hike and looking at a city view or looking at the ocean that brings you back to earth and kind of reminds you that your problems are quite small in retrospect. Lili Reinhart

London is not just an international financial centre: it is also one of the most ethnically diverse places on earth. Three hundred languages are represented within its boundaries, and - as is true of some other English cities - more than half of London's inhabitants describe themselves as non-white. Linda Colley

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Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else. Linda Colley

I come from a family that has grown their own food from well into times of slavery, provided for themselves and people around them. So I found, through conversations about the earth and about the house with my neighbors, a lot of common ground. Lizz Wright

Food Family People Own Earth Neighbors About Through Come House Well Around Provided Lot Times Common Common Ground Conversations Them Themselves Ground Found Grown Slavery

If you want to become a fossil, you actually need to die somewhere where your bones will be rapidly buried. You then hope that the earth moves in such a way as to bring the bones back up to the surface. And then you hope that one of us lot will walk around and find small pieces of you. Louise Leakey

Hope You Walk Will Somewhere Become Back Back Up Earth Way Rapidly Find Small Pieces Around Surface Lot Up Die Buried Where Moves Want Then Us Your Such A Way Fossil Actually Bring Need Bones

What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite. Louise Leakey

Time Our Distant Earth Several Our Time Record Finite Contemplate Like Also Force Fairly Does Cousins Place Us Planet Planet Earth Inhabited Who Fossil Species Extinct Recently

So one thing that I want to do is to make people realize that astronauts in general are very normal people. They are down to Earth, so to speak. I know it sounds contradictive, but we are very normal people. We are very normal people with a fantastic privilege and opportunity to do something that is extraordinary. Luca Parmitano

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Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows. Lucy Larcom

God Thought Everything Earth Alive Striving Atom Splendor His Infinite Which Depreciate Us Express Let Us Presence

Some people are the greatest people on Earth with good hearts and will get in the studio and make the most negative music in the world for the sake of success. That's what the music business does to you. That's what capitalism does to you. Lupe Fiasco

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