134 Planets Quotes for You to Enjoy

Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all. Jules Verne

Time Together Space Enemies Will Wind Fall Other Meet Crowd Throw Open Put Come Tide Without Inevitably Question Ships Place Midst Planets Sea Last Two Fatality

If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would have recollapsed before it reached its present size. On the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a million, the universe would have expanded too rapidly for stars and planets to form. Stephen Hawking

Big Before Stars Universe Too Other Hundred Rapidly Thousand Would Rate Had Part Smaller Reached Greater Big Bang Been Hand Expansion Bang Size Form After Planets Even Million Present Second

Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent. Isaac Newton

Power Other Frame Sun System About Could Divine Never Put Well Without Am Motion Intelligent May Ascribe Them Agent Planets Reasons Therefore Compelled Gravity

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. Hilaire Belloc

One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us. Michio Kaku

I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life. B. F. Skinner

Life Intelligence Space Stars Universe Way Say Some Idea Since Know Force Ultimately Conditions Up Cannot Planets Averse Organizing Agnostic Such A Way Agnosticism Initial Set

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act. Charles Darwin

Wish Universe Once Insect Systems Laws Allow Smallest Governed Created Planets Act Special Whole Nay Satellites Universes

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.' Ban Ki-moon

Environmental Resources Had Because Plan Planet Planets Using Two

Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's countless other universes. Neil deGrasse Tyson

Space Sky Made Universe Other Else Seven Everything Hundred Philosophically Earth Everything Else Way Sun Those Never Countless Got Maybe Different Galaxies Dots Really Planets Special Billion Milky Way Things Night Universes

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. Quentin Crisp

Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off long ago and not still be showing geological activity. Pluto is, in fact, showing numerous examples of geological activity on a massive scale across the planet. Alan Stern

History Long Half Active Numerous Scale Would Pluto Examples Small Fact Like Massive Geological Still Years Off Expected In Fact Planet Planets Across Billion Cool Showing Activity Four

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development. Alexander Herzen

There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars. Barbara Ehrenreich

Time Black Cruelty Stars Black Holes About Talking Becoming Lot Up Hitting Going Just Holes Planets Whole Species Extinct

Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will often cross the orbit of any Earth-like planet and fling it into outer space, making life impossible. But our Jupiter travels in a near-perfect circular orbit, preventing a collision with any Earth-like planet, making life possible. Michio Kaku

Life Mother Impossible Space Will Our Circular Possible Outer Outer Space Cross Collision Preventing Highly Most Making Jupiter Any Often Orbit Planet Planets Means Fling Star Travels

The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic. Seth Shostak

Together Space Moon Stars Asteroid Indeed Sun Thousands Immutable Seem Only Maintaining Overall Look Comet Occasional Meteor Years Same Dynamic Galaxies Planets Appearance Millions Night Millions Of Years

The math is dead simple: it seems that the frequency of planets able to support life is roughly one percent. In other words, a billion or more such worlds exist in our galaxy alone. That's a lot of acreage, and it takes industrial-strength credulity to believe it's all bleakly barren. Seth Shostak

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One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the solar system as having not two but three zones. Alan Stern

Solar Three Think Solar System System Having Small Implications Scientists Discovery Planets Many Now Zone Two Belt

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations. Alan Stern

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It's interesting - Pluto's almost a brand unto itself. It's the farthest. It's the most diminutive of the classical planets. It's been maligned by astronomers. It's always the one with all the question marks in the back of the textbook in the table. I think children identify with it because it's smaller, kind of cute. Alan Stern

Cute Think Back Marks Kind Table Classical Pluto Smaller Almost Most Unto Identify Because Always Been Question Textbook Maligned Itself Brand Children Interesting Planets Farthest

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