Planets Quotes

• Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Process
  • Existence
  • Clock

• One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets in their orbits and cause them to rotate will rotate his own machinery.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Universe
  • Planets
  • Wheel

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

  

  Wernher von Braun
  • Science
  • Planet
  • Landing

• The experience you have making the movie is all you have; when the movie's finished, that's for other people. But while you're doing it, that's your time on the planet, so you want it to be good.

  

  Cary Elwes
  • Good
  • Want
  • Finished

• Under a dictatorship, a nation ceases to exist. All that remains is a fiefdom, a planet of slaves regimented by aliens from outer-space.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Space
  • Slave
  • Remains

• In the end, the only heritage we have is our planet, and I have decided to go to the most pristine places on the planet and photograph them in the most honest way I know, with my point of view, and of course it is in black and white, because it is the only thing I know how to do.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Way
  • Honest
  • Photograph

• I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

  

  Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
  • Creatures
  • Felt
  • Planets

• Kids are an important audience to reach for the future of the planet.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Future

• We face a dilemma because although everybody is better off than they've ever been at any time in our history, we've also got the biggest gap between the rich and the poor that we've ever had, and we've potentially got a planet which is going to go bust any day.

  

  Stuart Rose
  • Poor
  • Faces
  • Dilemma

• Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

  

  Wes Jackson
  • Trying
  • Term
  • Acknowledge

• Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.

  

  Danny Gatton
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Stuff

• Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Created
  • Planets
  • Hamlet

• I may be biased, but I tend to find a much lower tendency among female programmers to be dishonest about their skills, and thus do not say they know C++ when they are smart enough to realize that that would be a lie for all but perhaps 5 people on this planet.

  

  Erik Naggum
  • People
  • Programmers
  • Biased

• I think that music makers just really bless the planet.

  

  Charles Lloyd
  • Planets
  • Bless
  • Makers

• Feith had achieved the reputation in some military circles as 'the dumbest . . . guy on the planet.'

  

  Tommy Franks
  • Guy
  • Military
  • Reputation

• Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.

  

  William H. Schlesinger
  • Humans
  • Depends
  • Species

• No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen many times right here on our home planet? And how do we know it didn't? The truth is, nobody has looked.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Home
  • Earth
  • Should

• We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.

  

  Gerard K. O'Neill
  • Moon
  • Numbers
  • Appeals

• What a privilege to be here on the planet to contribute your unique donation to humankind. Each face in the rainbow of colors that populate our world is precious and special.

  

  Morris Dees
  • Special
  • Faces
  • Humankind

• The world doesn't belong to us, we belong to it. Always have, always will. We belong to the world. We belong to the community of life on this planet--it doesn't belong to us. We got confused about that, now it's time to set the record straight

  

  Daniel Quinn
  • World
  • Community
  • Confused

• Mostly I think I've learned to trust God more. I mean, if I start getting worried or freaked, I just try to put it in God's hands. Sometimes I imagine God cradling the globe in his hands, and I tell myself that as long as I'm with God, the Creator of the universe, I can be comfortable and at home anyplace on the planet.

  

  Melody Carlson
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Imagine

• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  

  Thomas More
  • Different
  • Sun
  • Moon

• Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Gods
  • Error
  • Separate

• If there is only empty space, with no suns nor planets in it, then space loses its substantiality.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Planets
  • Empty Space
  • Suns

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