#planets

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#correct #planets #sun #teaches #use

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence. ↗

— Paracelsus

#earth #elements #extract #firmament #little

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places. ↗

— David Rittenhouse

#beauty #bigness #considerable #contrived #fitter

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#group #planets #separate #space #stars

I'm an ardent Trekkie and I look forward to the United Federation of Planets. ↗

— Mike Oldfield

#federation #forward #i #look #planets

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#earth #important #important ways #many #mobility

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#believe #free #human #inquiry #most

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 parts #even #every #island #moon

If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems. ↗

— Story Musgrave

#between #communicate #communicating #creatures #cultures

We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting. ↗

— Robert E. Sherwood

#different #interesting #life #little #makes