Quotes of: Orbit Keyword

Mathematics is a terrible calling. It’s as merciless as gravity. It swallows the soul. There’s a point near a black hole called the last stable orbit. Once you drop below that radius, no force in the universe can stop you falling all the way in. ...

On the Steel Breeze

I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the coura...

Life of a Scientist: An Autobiographical Account of the Development of Molecular Orbital Theory

We essentially had to build a docking mechanism between the two capsules. We didn't have to share a lot of data, and we did that at the height of the Cold War, which was pretty symbolic." –Bill Gerstenmaier

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

Everyone I have spoken with about working with the Russians in space exploration believes that the United States has learned a great deal from Russia and that Russia has learned a great deal from the United States – and that the entire internationa...

The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.

Buzz Aldrin

We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.

Buzz Aldrin

I can't wait to use a BabyBjoern. I'm in love with the Orbit Baby stroller, and I also really like the Bugaboo.

Marisol Nichols

And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons...

Sputnik Sweetheart

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

Exit Ghost

The orbit of human vision has widened and art has annexed fresh territories that were formerly denied to it.

Max Bill

The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.

Eric Topol

What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited.

C. Wright Mills

We are all shining stars part of this UNIVERSE, which orbits the one SUN, but in different directions.

Abed Rahmani

NASA wanted to assure its ability to examine the spacecraft in orbit for signs of damage.

Marc Garneau

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.

Buzz Aldrin

Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.

Brian Walker

i will forever be colliding with a billion unnamed undiscovered stars, each of us on our own orbital paths.

Turquoise Silence

Putting seven people in orbit should not cost more than flying a commercial jet around Earth.

Steve Jurvetson

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Sally Ride

I live my life in growing orbits which move out over the things of the world.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I am not the moon orbiting around your planet; I am the sun that will burn through your frozen mind.

Shannon L. Alder