Solar System Quotes - Page 7

• If Eastlake High School were the universe, I would be one of the moons circling Planet Emma, constantly hidden by her shadow, and glad to be there. Nash Hudson would be one of the stars: too bright to look at, too hot to touch and at the center of his own solar system.

  Rachel Vincent

  Stars, School, Moon

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “My Soul to Take”, p.11, Harlequin

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• Say it again,” he says. “That whole drawn-out speech?” I remember something about a solar system, but I’m too light-headed to recite the entire thing all over again. He steps closer. “No. The part about you fallin’ for me.

  Simone Elkeles

  Light, Remember Something, Speech

  Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• I see why now Tohno-kun is different from the others. Like the rocket shooting off into space, on the loneliest journey to the far end of the solar system. Because he's always looking at something beyond me. He can never see me. I cried myself to sleep, thinking of him.

  Makoto Shinkai

  Sleep, Journey, Thinking

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• Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

  Ayn Rand

  Knowledge, Shapes, Pebbles

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.100, Penguin

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• Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory of a heliocentric solar system; it should not pay attention to the equally preposterous notions of scientific creationism

  Robert E. Ornstein

  Circles, Religion, Attention

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• Do not be grand. Try to get the ordinary into your writing - breakfast tables rather than the solar system; Middletown today, not Mankind through the ages.

  Darcy O'Brien

  Writing, Age, Trying

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• The world needs specialists and highly trained people with advanced degrees, no question about it. But the world also needs diversity and versatility. It needs people who know as much about our value system as they do about our solar system.

  Roger Smith

  Teaching, People, Diversity

  U.S. News & World Report Vol 92 (p. 66), 1982.

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• It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries. I think that they possibly have been sent out to conduct systematic, long-range investigations, first of men, animals, vegetation, and more recently of atomic centers, armaments an centers of armament production.

  Hermann Oberth

  Real, Animal, Intelligent

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• Abstract: Careful review of a vast array of relevant evidence clearly leads to the conclusion that some unidentified flying objects are intelligently controlled vehicles whose origin is outside our solar system. All the arguments against the extraterrestrial origin seem to be based upon false reasoning, misrepresentation of evidence, neglect of relevant information, ignorance of relevant technology, or pseudo sophisticated assumptions about alien appearance, motivation, or government secrecy...

  Stanton T. Friedman

  Motivation, Ignorance, Technology

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• It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system. They are possibly manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race carrying out long-range scientific investigations of our earth for centuries.

  Hermann Oberth

  Real, Intelligent, Race

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• It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.There is no doubt in my mind that these objects are interplanetary craft of some sort. I and my colleagues are confident that they do not originate in our solar system.

  Hermann Oberth

  Real, Space, Flying

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• And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place. But like the solar system is going through a change soon and it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years.

  Jimi Hendrix

  War, Years, Games

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• The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

  Michio Kaku

  Brain, Three, Pounds

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• Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.

  John Dickinson

  Moving, Government, Sun

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• Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, Space, Way

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• The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system... the moment you relax from the 'I' the 'other' will disappear... you become 'one' with the truth.

  Swami Nithyananda

  Running, Unity, Relax

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• It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast

  Jeri Ryan

  Thinking, Space, Arrogant

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• No new creation or destruction of matter is within the reach of chemical agency. We might as well attempt to introduce a new planet into the solar system, or to annihilate one already in existence, as to create or destroy a particle of hydrogen.

  John Dalton

  Agency, Might, Matter

  John Dalton (1808). “A New System of Chemical Philosophy...”, p.212

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• For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results.

  Carolyn Porco

  Heart, Body, Littles

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• We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today.

  Carolyn Porco

  Moon, World, Territory

  "Space probe sees Xanadu on Saturn moon" by Robert Roy Britt, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2004.

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• The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Believe, Ambition, Moon

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• While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Thinking, Guarantees That

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• Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Science, Space, Progress

  The Sirens of Titan epigraph (1959)

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• All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

  Carolyn Porco

  Children, Grandma, Teaching

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• In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stars, Clever, Philosophy

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.34, Penguin

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