Planet Quotes

“List of planets”

“Laniakea Supercluster”

“The only truly alien planet is Earth.”

“Wikipedia: Planet”

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

“We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us.”

“And the mass starts into a million suns;
Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,
And second planets issue from the first.”

“I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.”

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

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

“I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.”

“We are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.”

“It’s so hard to balance in our minds the knowledge that ‘the world’ is mundanely ‘a planet.’ The former is so holy; the latter merely a science project.”

“I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.”

“This world was once a fluid haze of light,
Till toward the centre set the starry tides,
And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast
The planets: then the monster, then the man.”

“That very law which moulds a tear,
  And bids it trickle from its source;
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
  And guides the planets in their course.”

“Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.”

“The Builder of this Universe was wise,
He plann’d all souls, all systems, planets, particles:
The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by,
Was—Heavens!—was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!”

“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost between two spiral arms in the outskirts of a galaxy, tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.”

“Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'”