Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Jeanette Winterson

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

Iain Banks

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

Martin Amis

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

Paul Davies

The problem here is that a civilization that is 1,000 light years away doesn't know we exist. They don't know that we have radio telescopes here on Earth because they see Earth as it was 1,000 years ago. Nothing can travel faster than light, so however good their instruments they can't see in affect the future. So there is no particular reason they should be sending us messages at this time.

Paris Hilton

I'm very scared to do it. What if I don't come back? With the whole light-years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I'll be like, 'Great. Now I have to start all over'.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

In any case, the leading edge of our "on purpose" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be.

Kathleen Quinlan

At this point in my career, Apollo 13 is a million light years away.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Most civilisations, perhaps, look shinier in general terms and from several light-years away.

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Bill Ryan

We're inches away from getting (the leases) completed.

John Gresiak

We're going with about three to six inches for the area, maybe more on the lower end of that range.

Aaron Nida

She's only about 41/2 inches from the automatic.

Tom Brokaw

I had four compression fractures in my spine. They were repaired, but it cost me two inches of height.

Tommy Williams

From midnight to 4 a.m., we recorded about 2 inches of rain and over a half-inch more from then until 8 a.m..

Jim Fischer

We're probably going to get several more inches of rain on this side of the mountain.

Bill Renner

We thought we had a mismatch at wide receiver and their cornerbacks because we're six inches taller, ... Peter can throw it deep.

Mark Ewens

We had 5.1 inches of snow here, with 0.53 inch of precipitation.

David Hume

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Albert Einstein

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

Cat Stevens

Communal well-being is central to human life.

J. I. Packer

We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.