Top 214 Planetary Quotes & Sayings

Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up.

The negative impact of population growth on all of our planetary ecosystems is becoming appallingly evident.

We're all on-board the same planetary spaceship, but together, we can move mountains.

I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.

It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

The position of the planetary bodies at the moment of birth is a musical score done in planetary symbols of the heavenly harmonics and dissonances as these are played into the life of the incarnating ego.

It now appears that essentially every star has a planetary system. In the very beginning, we thought at best half.

The world is not the prettiest place in this planetary universe.

I tell public audiences, don't go to a podiatrist for brain surgery; don't go to an astronomer for planetary science.

We are not going to stop here on planet Earth. We're going to move out to other planetary bodies.

Earth's biosphere gave birth to humans and our thoughts, which are now reshaping its planetary cycles. A planet with brains? Fancy that.

My field is called planetary science.

Neptune's unusual behavior is showing us that though we can make great models of planetary atmospheric circulation, there may be key pieces missing.

When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.

I've been on 26 space missions; they range from suborbital to orbital to shuttle experiments to planetary missions.

As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

The Kuiper Belt is the largest mapped structure in our planetary system, three times as big as all the territory from the sun out to Neptune's orbit.

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home.

Whether a star has planetary companions or not is a condition of its birth. Those with a larger initial allotment of metals have an advantage over those without.

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

Conquer land like Napoleon, military bomb fest We want sanitary food, planetary conquest

As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

There's no rest when you're on planetary duty.

We really just didn't realize the diversity of planetary types in our solar system. Pluto looked like a misfit because it was the only one we saw. And just as a Chihuahua is still a dog, these ice dwarfs are still planetary bodies. They're large enough to make themselves round by self gravity, and they surely pass the test of planethood.

In planetary terms, we're all downstream.

I'm an astrobiologist, and I come from a planetary science background, so in a very broad sense, I study the evolution of planetary environments.

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?

I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.

As a planetary system, Saturn holds the greatest promise for answering questions that have a far broader scientific reach than Saturn itself.

Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse?

As a planetary scientist, I don't know what else to call Pluto: It's big and round and thousands of miles wide.

We were very surprised to find out that Pluto is still geologically alive. It has upended our ideas of how planetary geophysics works.

I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

You stop planetary exploration, those people who do that extraordinary work are going to have to go do something else.

If you go to planetary science meetings and hear technical talks on Pluto, you will hear experts calling it a planet every day.

So at the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution.

I think it's fantastically narcissistic to believe that in the entire universe, with all of the planetary systems that we've already discovered and the countless others that are out there, that we are the only forms of life.

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.

Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes than on Mars.

I believe that the thought that women together can change the world is emerging into the minds and hearts of many of us, and that the vessel for personal and planetary evolution is the circle with a spiritual center.

I believe that the astonishingly consistent and nuanced reality of the planetary correlations with the archetypal dynamics of human life is one of the most compelling intimations we have that we live in a meaning-laden and purposeful universe.

Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.

The planetary phase of history has begun, but the future shape of global society remains profoundly uncertain. Though perhaps improbable, a shift toward a planetary civilization of enriched lives, human solidarity, and environmental sustainability is still possible.

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.

I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

To say that what a planet is doesn't matter would be to imply that a planetary scientist couldn't explain to someone what the field is about.

It would be impossible in a few words to describe all that we've found with Cassini. No mission has ever gone as deep for as long on a planetary system as rich as Saturn's.

One of the first thoughts I had, when doing early exoplanet research, was that Earth and its many companions seemed very different from the planetary systems we were detecting.

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?

I do a lot of work with NASA and am involved in research projects studying planetary evolution, Earth-like planets, and potential conditions for life elsewhere.

I think that an advanced planetary civilization will modify their own planets to be more stable, to prevent asteroid impacts and dangerous climate fluctuations.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

The planetary machinery tends to be jumpy, this is to respond disproportionately to disruptions that come with the manmade greenhouse effect.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

We are running out of time, we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

Whatever we are going through is part of the planetary struggle to evolve.

What space brings to you is that global perspective, that planetary perspective, that we're all in this together, and no matter where you're living on Earth, we're all part of this amazing journey.

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

I believe it is possible that we can turn today's breakdown into a planetary breakthrough on one condition. We can do it if we can break free of a set of dominant but misleading ideas that are taking us down.