Quotes for All
…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 … Read more
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions. Eric Chaisson
Mars is the only place in the solar system where it’s possible for life to become multi-planetarian. Elon Musk
The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system. Edwin Powell Hubble
We call our intuition our sixth sense, but in reality it would be called our first sense, because it’s rooted in quantum nature of reality. It was around long before our solar system and our planetary system were even formulated or even organized. It is at the basis of how our normal sensing works. So … Read more
Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. Friedrich Nietzsche
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
The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This … Read more
Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself. Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved. Donald A. Wollheim