Planets Quotes

What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.

The planet is fine. The people are f****d. Because everyone is trying to save the planet. The planet doesn’t need that. The planet will take care of itself. People are selfish. And that's what they're doing is trying to save the planet for themselves to have a nicer place to live.

I would annex the planets if I could.

What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus.

By the time I finished high school, I knew I wanted to become an astronomer. By the time I finished college, I knew I wanted to be part of the American space program. And that's exactly what I did.

Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble.

It is rash to set limits to the progress of science. A man who had maintained at Queen Victoria’s Jubilee that within fifty years one would fly the Atlantic in a matter of hours would have risked being certified and locked up; yet we have seen this happen, and in the circumstances I am not prepared to rule out with any confidence the possibility one day of journeys through space in vessels carrying supplies of food and oxygen to the moon and the nearer planets.

People who do comedy really are the nastiest people on the planet.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

I got interested in astronomy at the age of 8 because I was looking at an atlas of the planets in my parents' apartment in Arlington, where I grew up. I got a telescope at age 10, which is pretty normal, and by the time I was in eighth grade, I had already seen a lot of cheesy sci-fi films.

We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars.

There is no more ethical group on this planet than ourselves.

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

There are in fact 100 billion galaxies, each of which contain something like a 100 billion stars. Think of how many stars, and planets, and kinds of life there may be in this vast and awesome universe.

Just 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.

We reserve the right to make fun of every single person on planet Earth.

... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.

Stars, of course, are too hot to support life, so wherever life might exist in the universe, it has to be on planets or moons that are warmed, but not incinerated, by the stars they travel around.

My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.

I actually believe more in outer space in Virginia, because I can look up at the sky and count the stars.

I'm probably one of my three biggest fans on the planet.