quotes about Orbit
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Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossamer starbridges reached from the equator towards orbit.
-- Alastair ReynoldsSource : Alastair Reynolds (2002). “Revelation Space”, p.189, Penguin
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Hold fast, therefore, O circular philosopher, to thy centre, and drive the globe along its orbit by the momentum of thy thought.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Once you are in the orbit of your destiny, weightlessness is the only result.
-- Baba Amte -
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.
-- Ben Parr -
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The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all the objects in the world would be shards of bare mute blankness, spinning wildly out of orbit, if we didn't bind them together with stories.
-- Brian MortonSource : Brian Morton (1999). “Starting Out in the Evening”, Berkley Publishing Group
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We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear.
-- Carolyn Porco -
It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the electrons about the nucleus and the slower, more majestic orbit of the galaxies about one another to the very edge of space
-- Clifford D. Simak -
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Words have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbits and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
-- David LehmanSource : David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr
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There's almost no gravity at the surface. If you were standing on [the surface], you could jump into orbit.
-- Donald E. Brownlee -
Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.
-- Duane G. Carey -
E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.)
-- Galileo Galilei -
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We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often the two simply continue without incident, neither losing more than a particle to the other, in passing.
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She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.
-- Guy Gavriel Kay -
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.
-- Harvey V. Fineberg -
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
-- James A. Michener -
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I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
-- Jeff VanderMeer -
We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with countless others.
-- Joan Z. Borysenko -
Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.
-- John Carroll -
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the planets, repelled yet attracted, and the whole moving regularly and harmoniously in several orbits.
-- John Dickinson -
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After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.
-- John L. Phillips -
My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.
-- K. Eric DrexlerSource : Foresight Interview, foresight.org.
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We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it
-- Kingsley Amis -
Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get to orbit, we trained months and months for, and didn't have to use any of that preparation, other than being aware and ready.
-- Laurel ClarkSource : "Shuttle crew takes break for CNN interview". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2003.
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We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.
-- Linda M. Godwin -
Why must women stay quietly? Why must we be little moons, each of us stuck in our little orbit, revolving around a planet that is some man? Why can't we be other planets? Why must we be moons?
-- Loretta Chase -
Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit.
-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -
But who does not see that the work goes beyond the one who created it? It marches before him and he will never again be able to catch up with it, it soon leaves his orbit, it will soon belong to another, since he, more quickly than his work, changes and becomes deformed, since before his work dies, he dies.
-- Michel Seuphor -
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When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.
-- Robert CrippenSource : "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Interview with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.
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It can be argued that the mathematics behind these images [of the orbit diagram for quadratic functions and the Mandelbrot set] is even prettier than the pictures themselves.
-- Robert L. Devaney -
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with NASA's help.
-- Sally Ride -
Poetry is language in orbit.
-- Seamus HeaneySource : Seamus Heaney (2010). “Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001”, p.366, Faber & Faber
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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
-- Tycho Brahe -
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Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
-- Austin O'Malley -
Neptune controls Pluto's orbit. Neptune is the bully of that neighborhood.
-- Mike BrownSource : Source: www.cbsnews.com
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The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
-- Eric Topol -
In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.
-- Roxanne RobertsSource : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
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The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be the longest-lasting artifacts of human civilization, quietly circling Earth until the Sun turns into a Red Giant, about five billion years from now.
-- Trevor Paglen -
Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.
-- Leonard Read -
While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit.
-- Louise WilderSource : Louise Beebe Wilder (1997). “What Happens in My Garden”, Hartley & Marks