Quotessence
Home / Topics / Solar System Quotes

Solar System Quotes

Browse 205 quotes about Solar System.

Related topics

PlanetsEarthUniverseIfsSpaceSunKnowsStarsHumansMoonWorldThinkingWould BeScienceYearsPeopleEndsMarsMenWholeHas BeensLooksMight

Solar System Quotes

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.”

KnowsMayIdeasShowsCommonStudyPathSourceFundamentalsInsightPositive AtheismAcceptedLovelyAriseMysteriousUncomfortableUnexpectedEndeavorConventionalSuppressionSolar System
Author:Carl Sagan
Create image

“So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations.”

WorldHas BeensPurposeUniverseExpectationsOur WorldDisappointedCosmicAmbitiousGalaxySolar System
Book:The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
Create image

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.”

KnowsBookPhilosophyNextFoundLiteratureLanguageIgnoranceTheorySurpriseIgnorantContemporaryRemarkableCompositionSolar SystemClimaxContemporary LiteratureStudy In Scarlet
Book:The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 56 Stories & 4 Novels
Create image

“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.”

PeopleThinkingWayWellsMayEarthScienceUniversePrinciplesCasesForeverSpecialEdgesGuidesJust OneGuaranteesCosmicGalaxySolar SystemGuarantees ThatSpecial PlacesMilky WayMultiverseCenter Of The Universe
Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
Create image

“Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.”

WayHumansPersonsTwoPlayBigsKidsLeftStarsLosesClassLaughingSunPositionPlanetsBaseballImportanceBillionsCommentGalaxySolar SystemLeft OutMilky Way
Book:House Rules: A Novel
Create image

“I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?”

PeopleThinkingWantYearsMindWellsFactsUniverseDoubtWillingComplexesDebateOrganizedNo DoubtSolar SystemGod ExistsComets
Author:Benjamin Carson
Create image

“Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with anything beyond Earth. Follow the light and we can journey from the confines of our planet to other worlds that orbit the Sun without ever dreaming of spacecraft. To look up is to look back in time, because the ancient beams of light are messengers from the Universe's distant past.”

WorldLooksDreamLightEarthPastUniverseSunJourneyPlanetsConnectionsAncientLook UpAncestorOur PlanetOther WorldsBeamMessengersOrbitSolar SystemBack In TimeSpacecraftBeams Of Light
Book:Wonders of the Universe
Create image

“Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to the humblest living creature, with his god-like intellect which has penetrated into the movements and constitution of the solar system- with all these exalted powers- Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”

MenFeelsStillsQualityCompassionMovementHumilityBearsEvolutionCreaturesConstitutionIntellectNobleStampsBenevolenceExaltedLiving CreaturesSolar SystemIndeliblePower ManEvolution Of ManOrigin Of Man
Book:The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality
Create image

“Our challenge is to give what account we can of what becomes of life in the solar system, this corner of the universe that is our home; and, most of all, what becomes of men-all men, of all nations, colors, and creeds. This has become one world, a world for all men. It is only such a world that can now offer us life, and the chance to go on.”

MenWorldGivingHomeScienceUniverseNationsChallengesChanceExistenceColorGoes OnOffersAccountsCornersCreedsSolar System
Author:George Wald
Create image

“We know there are billions of stars and planets literally out there, and the universe is getting bigger. We know from our fancy telescopes that just in the last two years more than 20 planets have been identified outside our solar system that seem to be far enough away from their suns - - and dense enough - - that they might be able to support some form of life. So it makes it increasing less likely that we're alone. But if we were visited someday, I wouldn't be surprised.”

IfsKnowsInspirationalYearsHas BeensTwoEnoughSeemsMightMotivationalAbleLastsFormUniverseStarsSupportSunPlanetsHealthyBiggerSuicideBillionsWell BeingFancySomedayTwo YearsTelescopesDenseSuicidal ThoughtsSolar SystemStars And Planets
Author:William J. Clinton
Create image

“I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that make up ninety-nine per cent of our living substance were cooked in the deep interiors of earlier generations of dying stars. Gathered up from the ends of the universe, over billions of years, eventually they came to form, in part, the substance of our sun, its planets, and ourselves. Three billion years ago, life arose upon the earth. It is the only life in the solar system.”

LifeYearsEndsFeelingsEarthFormScienceUniverseThreeStarsSunGenerationsShareDyingStudentsPlanetsPrideYears AgoCookingBillionsNineSubstanceCentsCarbonInteriorsOxygenNinetySolar SystemNinety NineNitrogen
Author:George Wald
Create image

“Natural causes, as we know, are at work, which tend to modify, if they do not at length destroy, all the arrangements and dimensions of the earth and the whole solar system. But though in the course of ages catastrophes have occurred and may yet occur in the heavens, though ancient systems may be dissolved and new systems evolved out of their ruins, the molecules [i.e. atoms] out of which these systems are built-the foundation stones of the material universe-remain unbroken and unworn.‎ They continue to this day as they were created-perfect in number and measure and weight.”

IfsKnowsMayWholeAgeEarthScienceUniverseCoursesHeavenCausesNaturalPerfectNumbersMaterialsBuiltStonesWeightFoundationAncientRuinsDimensionsLengthThis DayAtomsArrangementsCatastropheMoleculesSolar SystemUnbroken
Book:The Scientific Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
Create image

“The universe is an asymmetrical entity. I am inclined to believe that life as it is manifested to us must be a function of the asymmetry of the universe or of the consequence of this fact. The universe is asymmetrical; for if one placed the entire set of bodies that compose the solar system, each moving in its own way, before a mirror, the image shown would not be superimposable on the reality.”

IfsWayLifeBelieveFactsBodyRealityMovingScienceUniverseConsequenceFunctionMirrorsEntitySolar SystemMoving InAsymmetry
Author:Louis Pasteur
Create image

“[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling can preserve an individual life beyond the grave; that all the labour of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system, and that the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins.”

MenHumansWholeFeelingsInspirationAgeScienceUniverseIndividualBeliefGrowthFireGeniusAchievementGravesDevotionRuinsPreservesOutcomesTemplesLabourBuriedIntensityAtomsHeroismDestinedHis LoveExtinctionBrightnessSolar SystemThoughts And FeelingsHopes And FearsIndividual LifeDebrisUnyielding
Book:Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Create image

“...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest pile of red ones. So once the cards are dealt the game is determined, and from any position in it you can derive all others back to the deal and forward to win or draw. ...in relation to the solar system..., the laws are like the rules of an infantile card game.... But in relation to what happens on and inside a planet the laws are, rather, like the rules of chess; the play is seldom determined, though nobody breaks the rules.”

TwoPlayHappensActionLawTurnsGamesWinningBlackDealsMoralBreakPsychologyPositionPlanetsDrawsEthicsRedRelationDeterminedChessCardsWinnerSolar SystemInfantile
Author:G. E. M. Anscombe
Create image

“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.”

ThinkingMenFirstsMayLongHas BeensRealEarthSpaceAnimalRaceCenturyMembersIntelligentProductionsFlyingShipsRangeInvestigationObserversUfoSystematicSolar SystemThesisInvestigatingArmamentVegetationSiriusFlying Saucers
Author:Hermann Oberth
Create image

“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...”

SeemsGovernmentMotivationTechnologyInformationObjectsIgnoranceEvidenceArgumentCarefulAppearanceFlyingConclusionAliensAbstractAssumptionReasoningNeglectControlledReviewsRelevantVehicleSophisticatedSecrecyUfoSolar SystemPseudoExtraterrestrialMisrepresentation
Author:Stanton T. Friedman
Create image