Planets Quotations | Page 2

The smaller the planets are, they are, other things being equal, of so much the greater density; for so the powers of gravity on their several surfaces come nearer to equality. They are likewise, other things being equal, of the greater density, as they are nearer to the sun.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.

I have cellulite, just like almost every other woman on the planet.

We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

Work with your competitors when the interest of the community and planet are at stake.

Clearly, enriching the cosmos with heavy elements takes a while. So there's inevitably an interval between the sterile aftermath of the Big Bang and a time when the cosmic chemistry set had enough ingredients to make rocky planets (and squishy biology).

Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than as individuals (think of our own solar system), the number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy is of order one trillion.

We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here.

Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What's it all about?

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

We think that life develops spontaneously on Earth, so it must be possible for life to develop on suitable planets elsewhere in the universe. But we don't know the probability that a planet develops life.

The force that keeps the planets revolving around the sun would be glad to handle the circumstances of your life, if only you would ask him to.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

I'm an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call 'the last illusion.' The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what's going on but that the planets know what's going on.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

The mission of NASA's Kepler telescope is to lift the scales from our eyes and reveal to us just how typical our home world is. Kepler operates by measuring the dimming of stars as planets pass ('transit') in front of them. It has found thousands of previously unknown worlds.

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

I don't think we are the only planet that has life.

This plucky NASA telescope is able to find planets en masse. If you compare planet hunting to prospecting for gold, then Kepler is equivalent to trading in your trusty pan for a diesel-powered sluice box.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Whether planets around these stars could be Earth-like would depend on orbital distance. There have been extensive studies and it turns out these planets would have to be pretty close to their stars, although it would depend on the mass of the stars.

Venus is extremely inhospitable for life, whereas Earth is a great place to live. If these planets were created about the same time, why would Earth take on such a different character?

Venus has become somewhat of a 'forgotten planet' with the emphasis on Mars exploration in the U.S.. But Venus can tell us about Earth's future and about planets around other stars -- I expect we will discover a number of surprises from this most capable new mission.

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.

You're one of 6.5 billion people now on the planet, and 99.9 percent of your genes are the same as everyone else's.

If something's going wrong with this planet we'd better fix it here and not look for some sort of escape.

The whole planet is waiting for someone to do it first

The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.

There is nothing more contagious on this planet than enthusiasm.

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.

Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice.

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

Don't be afraid of the unknown because, even when they wander into chaos, planets are born stars!

The overarching factor to me is if we can't be kind to each other, we won't be kind to the planet.

If it's wrong to wreck the planet, it's wrong to profit from the wreckage.

Greg Ostertag is one of the top centers on this planet!

Tracy McGrady is doing things we've never seen from anybody - from any planet!

Nothing can survive on the planet unless it is a cooperative part of larger global life.

Surfing is simply the most fun I know how to have on this planet.

I hope to direct a few more films before I leave the planet, so I hope I can find the material.

The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

We always thought the living Earth was a thing of beauty. It isn’t. Life has had to learn to defend itself against the planet’s random geological savagery.

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone.

We must learn how to think like the planet.

After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all the suns, they realized there was no other life in the universe, and that they were alone. And they were very happy, because then they knew it was up to them to become all the things they had imagined they would find.

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have?

Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing.

We usually say there is always a ‘Plan B,’ but there is no ‘Planet B’.

The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.

We're amazed that the planet-formation process seems to be so universal. Pulsars emit a tremendous amount of high energy radiation, yet within this harsh environment we have a disk that looks a lot like those around young stars where planets are formed.

Messi is on another planet.

To me, inner and outer are so strongly linked that any collective change that happens within human beings, within the human psyche, inevitably will be reflected externally in what happens on the whole planet.

My greatest hope is that we transcend the most fearful thing, which is that we are rapidly degrading the ecological systems on this planet that support everything we are doing and all life on it.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet,

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

We're operating this planet like a business in liquidation.

I feel more confident than ever that the power to save the planet rests with the individual consumer.

We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

The Earth is the most powerful and energetic planet.

The planets are lined up. We have the indictments of leaders of both parties on the way to prison. If we aren't going to get election reform this year, it will be a long time before we get it in Wisconsin.

There are two major possibilities. One that they formed in the innermost, hotter-most regions of our solar system when the sun and planets were forming, and they were thrown out -- all the way out to the Pluto region of the solar system. The other possibility is they were formed around other stars, in hot regions around other stars.

Life is fairly easy to create, but I think planets like Earth are going to be rare.

M dwarf stars dominate the stellar population in the solar neighborhood, and so are attractive targets for searching for habitable planets. The models show that gas-giant planets are indeed likely to form?at distances sufficiently large enough to permit the later formation of habitable, terrestrial planets.

One night after a show he gave me a gift. When I opened up the bag, he had made out of clay and dried macaroni a model of the universe with the planets and everything. Then in the middle of the model was an action figure with my face on it. I was the center of his universe.

Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity.

Now we can say that planets around pulsars are probably not that unusual. Maybe planets can form around any kind of star.

One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar.

I don't believe in aliens living on planets as such, but I do believe there's stuff going on in this room that none of us have any idea about.

I can tell you with some degree of confidence that in the next millennium we'll see human beings walk on other planets and even perhaps go to other stars,

From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

If a planet is setting in the West at the time of our birth, its angle strikes us in such a manner as to draw us to a certain type of marriage partner, and the planets under the earth, in the North, have an effect upon our condition in the latter part of life.

To endure in a volatile, unpredictable arena populated by egos the size of small planets is not an inconsiderable achievement,

Having a moon is just inherently cool, and is something that most self-respecting planets have.

Go green. Think green. Act Green. Get up, stand up. Living on the Green is free and good planets are hard to find.

There are so many interesting questions about Venus. Venus was once quite similar to Earth, but now the two planets are very different. Why are they so different now and when did this change start?

I think it is just a fascinating time. We are seeing the planets for the first time. Whether we are exploring through humans or by robots.

I was just hoping to weather the storm. But the planets must be aligned somewhere. When you win and one of your leading scorers doesn't score a point, you just thank your lucky stars.

It is a matter of common knowledge among mystics that the evolutionary career of mankind is indissolubly bound up with the divine hierarchies, who rule the planets and the signs of the Zodiac, and that the passage of the Sun and the planets through the twelve signs of the Zodiac, marks man's progress in time and in space.

I suppose if all of the stars, moons and planets align it could be possible, but what are the chances of that? There's reason to be hopeful, but I would caution everyone from getting their hopes set too high.

Planets that don't currently sport plate tectonics, such as Venus and Mars, are scarcely habitable. Tectonics might be a requirement of any world that aspires to a rich diversity of life.

Stars we're looking at here are prior to the formation of planets, we think, but it's not going to be very much longer in astronomical terms before planets start forming.

NASA is interested in what conditions to look for on other planets that might lead to the arrival of life. What are the processes? Using earth as our most detailed study site, what are the necessary steps a planet needs to go through to enable complex animal life to arise? If oxygen is the metabolic pathway, then we need to know what conditions have to allow for that to happen. The geologic record provides us with a record of these steps that occurred on Earth.

It is a curious feature of our existance that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.

The greatest question of all is whether our experience on this planet is 'it' or whether there is something else. Things in the supernatural realm give support, strangely perhaps, to the things we take on faith.

The action is more what happens between the people. We're not blowing up countries or having foreign invaders from other planets or anything.

You can do real research with this one. You can use it for finding planets around stars, finding asteroids ... it's awesome.

We have swept through all of the planets in the solar system, from Mercury to Neptune, in a historic 20 (to) 30 year age of spacecraft discovery,

We (Europe) aren't finished with the planets. We're planning to go back to Mars and we're planning also to go to Mercury, one of the most mysterious of planets very close to the Sun.

We are the laws of chemistry and physics as they have played out here on Earth, and we are now learning that planets are as common as stars. Most stars, as it turns out now, will have planets.

We've learned that the view of four inner rocky planets and four outer gas giants and one misfit Pluto is wrong. Now we understand Pluto's context.

We couldn't come up with a definition of planets in splendid isolation,