The centre of the system of the world is immovable.
Isaac NewtonEvolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.
Kurt VonnegutWe must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.
Stephen HawkingI create stars.
Abby Lee MillerFor me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThere are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.
Stephen HawkingThe moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonAll the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
PlatoIt is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William ShakespeareThere is nothing bigger or older than the universe.
Stephen HawkingNothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
David HareThe most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.
Richard P. FeynmanEverything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
Paulo CoelhoThe earth is supported by the power of truth; it is the power of truth that makes the sun shine and the winds blow; indeed all things rest upon truth.
ChanakyaYou can’t blame gravity for falling in love.
Albert EinsteinWhere there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
Henry David ThoreauThe Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.
Carl SaganIt’s been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.
Carl SaganWe can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaContention existed before the earth was formed.
Russell M. NelsonBeing a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will RogersAtheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
Isaac NewtonEven Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.
Billy GrahamI can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Carl SaganThree things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.
BuddhaThe view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.
Benjamin DisraeliI got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.
Terry PratchettThere are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Charles DickensThe Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
Galileo GalileiSpace is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
Dan QuayleCosmology is a rapidly advancing field.
Stephen HawkingThe senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.
Leonardo da VinciOpinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
VoltaireNo occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas JeffersonThe earth is bountiful, and where her bounty fails, nitrogen drawn from the air will refertilize her womb. I developed a process for this purpose in 1900. It was perfected fourteen years later under the stress of war by German chemists.
Nikola TeslaAll the evidence, experimental and even a little theoretical, seems to indicate that it is the energy content which is involved in gravitation, and therefore, since matter and antimatter both represent positive energies, gravitation makes no distinction.
Richard P. FeynmanI put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
Neil ArmstrongHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauThe motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.
Isaac NewtonYou are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.
Thich Nhat HanhSpace has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand.
Richard BransonThe sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
Galileo GalileiThe pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinJust as the system of the sun, planets and comets is put in motion by the forces of gravity, and its parts persist in their motions, so the smaller systems of bodies also seem to be set in motion by other forces and their particles to be variously moved in relation to each other and, especially, by the electric force.
Isaac NewtonGod grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘
Benjamin FranklinThe motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.
Isaac NewtonIt suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Neil ArmstrongI have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but I have not yet assigned a cause to gravity.
Isaac NewtonThere could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.
Stephen HawkingForget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Khalil GibranGravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this Agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.
Isaac NewtonFill the earth with your songs of gratitude.
Charles SpurgeonIf a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.
Isaac NewtonThe atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
George OrwellOn one of the SpaceX flights, we had a secret payload: a wheel of cheese. We flew to orbit and brought it back, so it was the world’s first ‚space cheese.‘ It was, in part, a tribute to Monty Python.
Elon MuskService to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Muhammad AliSuperstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
VoltaireLand on Mars, a round-trip ticket – half a million dollars. It can be done.
Elon MuskYou teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
Samuel Johnson