Top 1200 Solar System Quotes & Sayings

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.

The solar system is so humongous big.

I used to be a strong believer that we would eventually colonize the solar system the way it's been done in science fiction many, many times: bases on the moon, Mars colonized, move out to the outer planets, then we go to the next solar system and build a colony there. I don't know now - I'm not as convinced that's the way it's going to pan out.

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

Since Sunrun introduced solar as a service in 2007, it has become the preferred way for consumers to go solar in the nation's top solar markets. Sunrun has deployed more than $2 billion in solar systems and has raised more than $300 million in equity capital.

It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system.There is no doubt in my mind that these objects are interplanetary craft of some sort. I and my colleagues are confident that they do not originate in our solar system.

Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system.

Seoul citizens are becoming the owners of solar power plants by directly participating in solar generation through installation of mini solar photovoltaic, energy cooperative activities, or raising solar funds.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

The brain weighs only three pounds, yet it is the most complex object in the solar system.

We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.

We know that within the solar system is very unlikely there will be anything more advanced than microbial life, but if we think outside the solar system and then, the distances are, of course, immense, then there could be Earth-like planets with more advanced form of life.

Further ahead, I'd like to see tiny spacebots - smaller than your cell phone - travel outside our solar system to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. By keeping the mass of those spacebots low, we could more easily accelerate them.

But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

What most people know but don't realize they know is that the world is almost entirely solar-powered already. If the sun wasn't there, we'd be a frozen ice ball at three degrees Kelvin, and the sun powers the entire system of precipitation. The whole ecosystem is solar-powered.

If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.

We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system.

Our customer base isn't just people saying, 'I'm an environmentalist, I'm in my Birkenstocks, I went to Woodstock.' Solar is a bipartisan technology. Republicans like solar; conservatives like solar. Over 30% of our customers are veterans. There's something very American about being able to produce power on your own rooftop.

No matter how you measure it, whether you measure the amount of mass or you measure the number of bodies, most of our solar system exists out beyond the orbits of the asteroids. So we could not have claimed to know our own solar system until Voyager had toured the giant planets.

'Shrapnel' is based on the idea that we do colonize the solar system, but it's not clean and optimistic. The haves are putting the screws to the have-nots. The story is about the last stand of the last free colony in the solar system.

Look at that! If you ever needed convincing that we live in the solar system, that we are on a ball of rock, orbiting around the Sun with other balls of rock, then look at that! That's the solar system coming down and grabbing you by the throat.

Small bodies in our solar system, like comets and asteroids, help us understand how the solar system formed and provide opportunities to advance exploration.

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.

Homeowners want solar power. It's cost-effective. We invented a business model that makes it really easy for consumers to switch to solar - and that's solar-as-a-service.

We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in order to travel from one solar system to another, it would be necessary to be able to function consciously in the highest vehicle of man, the Divine Spirit.

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

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.

Khadi is the sun of the village solar system.

We're in the space exploration business, and the outer solar system is a wild, wooly place. We haven't explored it very well.

Most of the oceans in the Solar System are deep beneath ice shelves.

It's possible to gather light that's older than our solar system.

I think Pluto has to be considered among the places in the solar system that are possible homes for life.

The geysering on Enceladus is the most astonishing phenomenon we have in our solar system.

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

I bet most of the crowd does not know that there are six moons in the solar system bigger than Pluto.

The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.

Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one system to another is theoretically possible, once an unlimited source of power is developed.

I'm not putting up with this," she continued. "You can't even go out and buy a solar system without worrying I'll fall apart. How are you supposed to get anything done?" "Actually, I'm not in the market for a solar system right at the moment.

Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit of modification to the software, it could look at solar system objects.

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

Bringing solar as a renewable energy resource for those who are not able to install solar panels on their roofs allows more communities to benefit from a solar array.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

The gas-giant planets in our solar system all have large moons.

The solar system is off center and consequently man is too.

The solar system has no anxiety about its reputation.

There's an idea that London is a planet on its own: that it's starting to diverge from the rest of the solar system. We need to combat that.

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system - as well as the solar systems beyond.

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.

While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either.

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.