Willem de Sitter (1872–1934) Dutch cosmologist
Kosmos (1932), Above is Beginning Quote of the Last Chapter: Relativity and Modern Theories of the Universe -->
“Planets were very large places, on any scale but that of the spaces in between them.”
Source: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 9
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David Fleming (1940–2010) British activist
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Mae Jemison (1956) American doctor and NASA astronaut
Then & Now: Dr. Mae Jemison http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/07/cnn25.tan.jemison/, CNN, 19 June 2005
Kenneth E. Boulding (1910–1993) British-American economist
Kenneth Boulding (1966) Economics and Ecology. p. 225
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Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762–1814) German philosopher
Grundriss des Eigenthümlichen der Wissenschaftslehre in Rücksicht auf das theoretische Vermögen (1795) GA I.3, as quoted/translated by Erhard Scholz, "Philosophy as a Cultural Resource and Medium of Reflection for Hermann Weyl" http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0409596 (2004).
“There is very little difference between men and women in space.”
Helen Sharman (1963) British chemist who became the first Briton in space
Independent on Sunday, 9 June 1991
Isaac Newton book Opticks, or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
Query 28 : Are not all Hypotheses erroneous in which Light is supposed to consist of Pression or Motion propagated through a fluid medium?
Opticks (1704)
Context: What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?
“The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.”
Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor