Orbit Quotes - Page 7

• I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

  Richard Dawkins

  China, Teapots, There Is No God

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• Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

  May Sarton

  Years, Light, Dying

  May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.37, Open Road Media

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• Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres - and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.

  Richard Salter Storrs

  Afar, Gazing, Looks

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 142), 1895.

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• But who does not see that the work goes beyond the one who created it? It marches before him and he will never again be able to catch up with it, it soon leaves his orbit, it will soon belong to another, since he, more quickly than his work, changes and becomes deformed, since before his work dies, he dies.

  Michel Seuphor

  Doe, Able, March

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• I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum.

  Carl Sagan

  Hatred, Vision, Earth

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.199, Ballantine Books

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• Once someone is in your family orbit, there's a mutual responsibility, and whatever happens to them happens to you.

  Hank Azaria

  Responsibility, Our Family, Whatever Happens

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Earth, Fields

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.96, Graphic Arts Books

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• Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to various companies and for more money (considerably) fly into orbit.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, People, Thanks

  "Ask Me Anything" on Reddit, www.reddit.com. July 08, 2014.

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• Eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help. Whether it's going to be a consortium or one entity remains to be seen. I could be wrong. I could be one of the old fogies! Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing. It happens. A company has to be willing to bear the risk of its rocket failing. It's a very large capital investment.

  Sally Ride

  People, Risk, Able

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!

  E. T. A. Hoffmann

  Lying, Imagination, Vision

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• It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.

  Robert L. Devaney

  Beauty, Art, Mathematics

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• Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.

  Mike Brown

  Bully, Neptune, Pluto

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.

  Immanuel Velikovsky

  Believe, Mean, Axes

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• I want people to go into space, to orbit around the world a few times, even to stay there for 24 hours and then come back to where they took off. And I also want people with a low income to be able to do that, not only rich people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, People, Low Income

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• Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Being There, Coming Back

  "Q&A: Buzz Aldrin on 'In the Shadow of the Moon'". Interview with Shawn Adler, www.mtv.com. June 09, 2007.

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• When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about increasing the amount of payload. But to say, 'I'm going to do that and put people into orbit' is a real leap.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Real, People, Leap

  "Expert testimony on the space age". Interview, www.nbcnews.com. 2013.

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• In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and industry was very primitive. At the end of that century, we had men in orbit, we had been to the moon, we had people with cell phones and colour televisions and the Internet and amazing medical technology of all kinds.

  David Gerrold

  Moon, Technology, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.

  J. G. Ballard

  Stars, Energy, Enough

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• Ralph Ellison is a classic work of erudition, grace, and elegance. Rampersad offers us an Ellison whose gifts and warts orbit the same universe of creative genius. Like Ellison's work, Rampersad's text wrestles eloquently with difficult truths about race, politics, and American life.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Race, Creative, Genius

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• The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something into orbit. So you want to trim your electronics, miniaturize your electronics, miniaturize your satellites.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Cost, Electronics, Want

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will rise until it matches the 3,000-degree rarified outer layers of the expanded Sun.... But not to worry. We will surely go extinct for some other reason long before this scenario unfolds.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Sky, Long, Worry

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• Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Atheism, Purpose

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• Appalling is the soul of a man! Better might one be pushed off into the material spaces beyond the uttermost orbit of our sun, than once feel himself fairly afloat in himself.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Space, Soul

  Herman Melville (2016). “The Ambiguities”, p.476, Herman Melville

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• ... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the world of thought moved in its orbit like the revolutions of the moon; with one face (the man's face) always out, so that the spectator could not distinguish whether it was disc or sphere.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Ignorance, Eye, Thoughtful

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.76, Rowman & Littlefield

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• To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We are incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Ideas, Return

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1860). “The Conduct of Life”, p.1

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