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The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.

Galileo Galilei

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Aldous Huxley

The Word of God is the universal and invisible Light, cognizable by the senses, that emits its blaze in the Sun, Moon, Planets, and other Stars.

Albert Pike

With our method, over the next 10 years it could increase the number of new planets discovered to 10,000 or more.

Jian Ge

It tends to indicate these Earth-mass planets are quite common, 10 to 50 times more common than previously believed.

Andrew Gould

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus

These are the types of stars around which you would expect to find habitable zones and planets that could develop life.

Paul Kalas

To us, the biggest social issue of the day is what we are doing to the planet's atmosphere because of (President) Bush's decision to convert us to a coal-based electrical society.

Jim Dougherty

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

Aleksander Wolszczan

People don't think of impacts as things that reach all the way to the planet?s core.

Ralph Von Frese

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

Mary Daly

It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.

Paul Horowitz

The end goal of all this is to answer the fundamental question: Are we alone? But how did life form on Earth, and how easy is it for life to form? Those are other questions the discovery of planets can help us answer.

Stephen Kane

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

Leon Battista Alberti

The formation of our own Sun and planets probably was heavily influenced, if not triggered, by a nearby supernova explosion.

Jay Lockman

I don't have a very high opinion of men, without doubt it is because I am one. Men and women live on two planets. I find it even bizarre that we can coexist.

Danis Tanovic

We are closer to answering the question, 'Are we alone in the universe?' ... We aim to answer that question by looking for planets, eventually imaging them and ultimately diagnosing the presence of life on those planets.

Anne Kinney

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

Samuel Johnson

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Christopher Wren

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Hilaire Belloc

When I went to school there was no doubt that there are nine planets. Now, maybe there are eight or 10 and we've found a whole bunch around other stars.

Doug King

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

Alan Boss

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.

David Southwood

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.

Dane Cook

This research allows us to know how [planets] form and how they evolve. It makes us better understand our universe.

Jian Ge

That's Mars. And over there, that is Venus. What a treat - two planets in the same sky.

George Stovall

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.

Charles Lada

Zero elevation (or 'sea level') on Mars is essentially the planet's average elevation.

Carol Hughes

We were able to rule out Earth-sized planets in some of the orbits where theorists believed they might be found.

Jaymie Matthews

Asteroids are the leftover building blocks of rocky planets like Earth. We can't directly see other terrestrial planets, but now we can study their dusty fossils.

Charles Beichman

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.

Andrew Chaikin

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Steve Wallace

There are really no other methods at present that can detect planets of this mass and at this separation.

Andrew Gould

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Ursula K. LeGuin

The chemical and isotopic composition of the sun is the starting composition from which all planets formed.

Don Burnett

What we are trying to do is observe [planets] eclipsing their stars. Kepler will be put into space to avoid our unstable atmosphere.

Dimitar Sasselov

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

Bruce Sevy

This is the capstone of the missions to the planets that NASA has led since the 1960s.

Alan Stern

I was 8 years old. We studied wastewater disposal and planets.

Michael Zolensky

The beauty of comets is that they are important to us. We probably would not be here were it not for comets. Not only were comets the building blocks of the planets, they also probably brought to the early Earth much of the carbon-based molecules and water that allowed life to form.

Donald Yeomans

If you have a metal rich environment, it's not that hard to make rocky planets out of it in a very short time.

Aleksander Wolszczan

The solar system that likely will be formed around this star will include planets orbiting in different directions, unlike our own solar system.

Jan Hollis

Now we can say that (planets around pulsars) are not uncommon.

Aleksander Wolszczan

But it can't get too close to Jupiter, otherwise it won't have enough fuel to escape the planet's gravitational pull.

Randy Russell

This is the first reconnaissance mission of this region of the solar system. It's the only one of the nine planets that hasn't been explored, so this can complete the inventory of the solar system.

Hal Weaver

We hope to search hundreds of thousands of stars in the next decade, for about 10,000 planets.

Jian Ge

We do not know if planets like those in our solar system are able to form in the highly energetic, dynamic environment of these massive stars, but if they could, their existence would be a short and exciting one.

Charles Beichman

This disk looks remarkably like those also seen around ordinary young stars in which planets are known to form.

Deepto Chakrabarty

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.

Rich Zurek