Minor Planet Observations

Famous quotes containing the words minor, planet and/or observations:

    “For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
    —Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

    “ET phone home.”
    —Melissa Mathison, U.S. screenwriter, and Steven Spielberg. ET, ET The Extra-Terrestrial, realizing he can contact his home planet (1982)

    “The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled “a contemplative man’s recreation,” introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist’s observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man’s recreation.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)