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Solar Quotes

Thoughts orbiting our solar system.

These solar quotes range from optimism about solar energy's future to unease over who is actually guarding against EMP threats from the sun or a nuclear source. Learn more in our Energy quotes.

I think Pluto has to be considered among the places in the solar system that are possible homes for life.

Quotes by David Grinspoon

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Quotes by Dan Quayle

Our solar system is actually a wild frontier, teeming with different, diverse places: planets and moons, millions of objects of ice and rock.

Quotes by Carrie Nugent

Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived, there was the largest single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system.

Quotes by Carolyn Porco

The geysering on Enceladus is the most astonishing phenomenon we have in our solar system.

Quotes by Carolyn Porco

Most of the solar system resides beyond the orbits of the asteroids. There is more to learn there about general planetary processes than on Mars.

Quotes by Carolyn Porco

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

Quotes by Bob Dylan

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.

Quotes by Bob Brown

Solar will outcompete other technologies.

Quotes by Billy Parish

What the Ten Million Solar Roofs Act does is provide consumer rebates for the purchase and installation of solar systems.

Quotes by Bernie Sanders

If you're creating a whole universe, even if it's a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little bit of sleight of hand.

Quotes by Alastair Reynolds

Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.

Quotes by Alan Stern

Most of the oceans in the Solar System are deep beneath ice shelves.

Quotes by Alan Stern

One of the implications of the discovery of the Kuiper Belt and its many small planets is that many scientists now think of the solar system as having not two but three zones.

Quotes by Alan Stern

Pluto and its brethren are the most populous class of planets in our solar system.

Quotes by Alan Stern

The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.

Quotes by Alan Stern

Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system.

Quotes by Alan Stern

We're going to find Marses and maybe Earths out in the solar system's attic of the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt.

Quotes by Alan Stern

You could not have predicted the amazing discoveries at Pluto, even though we have been to a couple of objects in the solar system that were at least a little analogous to Pluto.

Quotes by Alan Stern

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this topic say about solar energy specifically?
One quote calls solar energy an inevitability, suggesting it's bound to become a bigger part of our future energy mix.
Is there concern about solar threats in these quotes?
Yes, one raises the question of who is actually accountable for shielding the country against an electromagnetic pulse from a solar or nuclear source.
Do these quotes touch on space exploration?
One voices optimism that within a few decades, fleets of miniature autonomous probes will have charted every corner of our planetary neighborhood.
How much do we understand about the solar system, according to these quotes?
One perspective suggests it may take over a century before our grasp of chemical atoms matches how thoroughly we understand our own solar system.
Where can I read more about energy-related topics?
Our Energy quotes cover broader ideas about power and resources beyond the solar system specifically.

Between hopes for mapping the solar system by robotic craft and doubts about how well we understand it, this topic blends science and wonder. Continue with our About quotes.