Orbit Quotes

• Una vez en órbita terrestre, estás a medio camino de cualquier lugar del sistema solar.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Space, Earth, Solar System

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• Without any doubt, the regularity which astronomy shows us in the movements of the comets takes place in all phenomena. The trajectory of a simple molecule of air or vapour is regulated in a manner as certain as that of the planetary orbits; the only difference between them is that which is contributed by our ignorance. Probability is relative in part to this ignorance, and in part to our knowledge.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Ignorancia, Conocimiento, Ciencia

  Pierre-Simon Laplace (2012). “Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from the fifth French edition of 1825 With Notes by the Translator”, p.3, Springer Science & Business Media

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• A rock or stone is not a subject that, of itself, may interest a philosopher to study; but, when he comes to see the necessity of those hard bodies, in the constitution of this earth, or for the permanency of the land on which we dwell, and when he finds that there are means wisely provided for the renovation of this necessary decaying part, as well as that of every other, he then, with pleasure, contemplates this manifestation of design, and thus connects the mineral system of this earth with that by which the heavenly bodies are made to move perpetually in their orbits.

  James Hutton

  Moving, Mean, Science

  James Hutton (1795). “Theory of the Earth: With Proofs and Illustrations”

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• Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and become a plastic world.. It goes deeper than its visual manifestations, it affects moral matters; we are engaged, as astrophysicists would say, on a decaying orbit.

  Raymond Loewy

  Science, Civilization, Cities

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• When you can dump a load of bricks on a corner lot, and let me watch them arrange themselves into a house - when you can empty a handful of springs and wheels and screws on my desk, and let me see them gather themselves together into a watch - it will be easier for me to believe that all these thousands of worlds could have been created, balanced, and set to moving in their separate orbits, all without any directing intelligence at all.

  Bruce Barton

  Spring, Believe, Moving

  Masonic News, Volume 8, p. 181, 1927.

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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 Lehman

  Fields, Used, Fixed

  David Lehman (1992). “Signs of the Times: Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man”, Poseidon Pr

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

  Max Bill

  Art, Vision, Territory

  Max Bill, James N. Wood (1974). “Max Bill”

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• Siempre intento estar alerta ante la posibilidad de repetición, de una órbita decadente con respecto a mi uso de la técnica, etc.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Trying, Etc, Technique

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• La NASA enviará un gran parasol que se situará en órbita entre la Tierra y el Sol y desviará al espacio el 2 ó 3% de la radiación solar. Sería más barato que la estación espacial internacional.

  James Lovelock

  Sunshine, Space, Earth

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• 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

  Thinking, Space, Nucleus

  Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Choice of Gods”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

  Yahoo Grave

  Real, Office, Devil

  Biografía/Citas personales, www.imdb.com.

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

  Sally Ride

  Hands, Space, Robots

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• 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

  Men, Vision, Trying

  C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.3, Oxford University Press

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• Me enorgullece saber, gracias a dos observaciones astronómicas, que Chapel Hill se encuentra justo en la órbita de Júpiter y sus satélites, y que el periodo de su revolución es de unos doce años.

  William Hooper

  Mentir, Años, Dos

  William Hooper (1859). "Fifty Years Since: An Address, Delivered Before the Alumni of the University of North Carolina, on the 7th of June, 1859, (being the Day Before the Annual Commencement.)", p.5.

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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

  Space, Different, Littles

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• No estoy de acuerdo con ir primero a la Luna para construir una plataforma de lanzamiento para ir a Marte. Deberíamos ir a Marte desde la órbita terrestre. Ya hemos estado en la Luna; ya hemos practicado.

  Wally Schirra

  Moon, Mars, Earth

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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

  Robots, Arms, Rooms

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• Yo no he volado nunca en el espacio, pero los que lo han hecho dicen que el día del aterrizaje acabas de pasar una semana y media, a veces dos semanas, en órbita y estás acostumbrado a que las cosas sucedan lentamente en el espacio.

  Duane G. Carey

  Two, Space, Half

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• The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Finals, Mystery

  Carta a Alfred Douglas, enero-marzo 1897

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• Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe.

  Nicolás Copérnico

  Book, Order, Together

  William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser (1938). "Prefacios y prólogos a libros famosos"

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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 Crippen

  Half, World, Hours

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Entrevista con George Diller, www.nasa.gov. 12 de abril de 2006.

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• Mirando hacia la Tierra, empezó a percibir una sensación de velocidad mucho mayor de la que había notado en órbita.

  Robert Crippen

  Earth, Speed, Looking Down

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Entrevista con George Diller, www.nasa.gov. 12 de abril de 2006.

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• We were only on orbit a little over two days so we had no adverse effects from being weightless...

  Robert Crippen

  Adverse Effects, Two, Littles

  "STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". Entrevista con George Diller, www.nasa.gov. 12 de abril de 2006.

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• 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 Drexler

  Space, Mit, Development

  Foresight Interview, foresight.org.

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• 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 Clark

  Eight, Preparation, Glitches

  "Shuttle crew takes break for CNN interview". Interview with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. January 20, 2003.

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