#planets

It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode. ↗

— Voltaire

#air #angels #been #dwell #god

You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer. ↗

— Sol Wachtler

#around #case #closer #each #fixed

His laws changed all of physics and astronomy. His laws made it possible to calculate the mass of the sun and planets. The way it's done is immensely beautiful. If you know the orbital period of any planet, say, Jupiter or the Earth and you know its distance to the Sun; you can calculate the mass of the Sun. Doesn't this sound like magic? We can carry this one step further - if you know the orbital period of one of Jupiter's bright moons, discovered by Galileo in 1609, and you know the distance between Jupiter and that moon, you can calculate the mass of Jupiter. Therefore, if you know the orbital period of the moon around the Earth (it's 27.32 days), and you know the mean distance between the Earth and the moon (it's about 200,039 miles), then you can calculate to a high degree of accuracy the mass of the Earth. … But Newton's laws reach far beyond our solar system. They dictate and explain the motion of stars, binary stars, star clusters, galaxies and even clusters of galaxies. And Newton's laws deserve credit for the 20th century discovery of what we call dark matter. His laws are beautiful. Breathtakingly simple and incredibly powerful at the same time. They explain so much and the range of phenomena they clarify is mind boggling. By bringing together the physics of motion, of interaction between objects and of planetary movements, Newton brought a new kind of order to astronomical measurements, showing how, what had been a jumble of confused observations made through the centuries were all interconnected. ↗

— Walter Lewin

#inspiration #newton #newton-s-laws #physics #planets

During the winter my attention was attracted to the changes in the stars and planets in the sky. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#attracted #changes #during #planets #sky

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

— Stephen Leacock

#correct #planets #sun #teaches #use

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian. ↗

— Simon Conway Morris

#any #darwinian #difficult #evolution #imagine

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

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth. ↗

— Sally Ride

#brighter #earth #i #just #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

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it. ↗

— Wesley Snipes

#being #black #black hole #black holes #create