“We live on planet earth, we have the sun, and it's the most beautiful thing, the way the sun dances and the way shadows are cast.” WayEarthBeautifulSunPlanetsShadowCastsBeautiful ThingsPlanet Earth Author:Kesh
“You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The sun you know the heart of our solar system makes noise. Even interstellar phenomena like black holes. You know people have studied them and a black hole can emit sound in like the range of 20,000 octaves below B flat.” PeopleKnowsHeartKindEarthCertainSoundBlackSunPlanetsHolesNoiseRangeFlatsSpheresFrequencySolar SystemMagneticBlack HoleInterstellar Author:DJ Spooky
“I just love any place that I can sit in the sun and feel the warmth of the sun's rays, and feel the connection to the planet, really tapping into how small I am and really how insignificant I am in comparison to the universe.” FeelsI CanUniverseSunPlanetsConnectionsComparisonWarmthRaysInsignificantTappingWarmth Of The Sun Author:Dean Potter
“If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.” IfsWantYearsWould BeSecretBehindsHalfSunFourEventsPlanetsBirthYears AgoBillionsHelpfulRemnants Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.” YearsReasonHalfKnownSunFourPlanetsBirthYears AgoCloudsBillionsDustGasTransformedSolar System Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth formed, but that's only because modern telescopes empower us to see other stars and planets freshly hatched within gas clouds across the galaxy. As for the origin of life itself, the transition from inanimate molecules to what any of us would call life remains one of the great frontiers of biology.” IdeasEarthStarsSunModernPlanetsMoonRemainsCloudsEmpoweringGasBiologyTransitionGalaxyFrontiersMoleculesTelescopesOrigin Of LifeStars And Planets Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling Earth until the Sun turns into a Red Giant, about five billion years from now.” YearsHumansEarthTurnsSunFivePlanetsCivilizationRedBillionsRingsPermanentGiantsLastingOur PlanetOrbitArtifactsSaturnHuman CivilizationSpacecraftFixture Author:Trevor Paglen
“We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's rays and could decrease its temperature. But this process is how dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth about 60 million years ago, by particles spewed by a volcano or a giant meteorite impact, and our species could follow suit.” KnowsYearsLittlesEarthProcessMillionsSunPlanetsConsequenceYears AgoImpactSpeciesSuitsAtmosphereGiantsShadeRaysParticlesTemperatureDinosaursDecreaseVolcanoesGeoengineering Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“The sun is the source of all energy on planet Earth and we cannot experiment with our only energy source.” EarthEnergySunPlanetsSourceExperimentsPlanet EarthEnergy Sources Author:Graciela Chichilnisky
“An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.” LanguageSunPlanetsAmountMoonModelsEnormousCodeAtomsSolar SystemMetaphoricalCiphers Author:Steven Pinker
“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.” ThinkingLittlesStillsTwoIdeasEndsFormScienceLyingWatchesMillionsSunPlanetsArmsBlueGreenDistanceWesternMilesDigitalYellowPrimitiveGalaxyInsignificantNinetyApesNeatCosmologySpiralsUnchartedHitchhikers Guide To The GalaxyHitchhikers GuideHikerBlue PlanetYellow Sun Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Omnibus: A Trilogy in Four Parts
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.” WayLifeEyeUniverseUnderstandingSleepAnswersMorningMillionsSunMeditationCenturyColorPlanetsInspirational LifeGratitudeHundredWake UpSpendingNobleDecadesGet UpBotherEnlightenedInsightfulSparklingInspirational ChristmasSumptuousSense PerceptionUnderstanding The Universe Author:Richard Dawkins