Quotes About Saturn

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

My dad's a physicist and had a key to the St Andrew's observatory, and we used to pop down to see Halley's Comet and Saturn and meteor showers.

As you go further from the sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are each colder in their upper atmosphere. But when you get to Neptune, it's just as warm as Uranus.

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, — the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made.

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

It would be impossible in a few words to describe all that we've found with Cassini. No mission has ever gone as deep for as long on a planetary system as rich as Saturn's.

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away.

Sure. Happy to do it,' I say. In terms of level of truthfulness, that statement would rank with something like, 'Damn, I'm going to be traveling to Saturn that day to go giraffe hunting.

A razão do sacrifício religioso (Saturno) é o fato de só podermos dar algo que, antes de tudo, temos verdadeiramente. Assim, ao "sacrificá-lo", santificamos a sua presença ab origine dentro de nós.

Sob a mensagem mais evidente está outra, que se refere ao tenpo (Crono, o nome grego de Saturno). O tempo é tanto velho como novo. Oculto na eternidade está o frescor do agora; oculto no agora, está o mistério da eternidade.

O planeta Saturno, no céu físico, poderia não estar 'influenciando' a nós tanto quanto ressoando com o Saturno que está em cada um de nós. Algo como a Lua solitária no céu à noite, refletindo-se em dez mil poças d'água simultaneamente.

O conhecimento da posição da Lua progredida e dos aspectos formados por Saturno em trânsito assinala qual é a 'opus' do momento presente. A Lua, tal como um refletor, mostra o foco, enquanto Saturno e os outros planetas descrevem as condições do tempo psicológicas.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

Every type of ring behavior we have seen around Jupiter, Uranus, or Neptune can be found in orbit around Saturn. And Saturn's ring system offers the greatest promise of understanding processes in operation within all disk systems, not just those found around planets.

What are you smiling about? And five! And four! chanted Meade. Nothing much. After we get to Titan we might— The blast cut off her words; the Stone trembled and threw herself outward bound, toward Saturn.

You have a mind like the rings of Saturn. A million miles wide and an inch deep.

That a starship could be built, that it could be propelled by laser beams, that humanity could reach the stars; this idea appeared to have been an intoxicant, to people around Saturn and on Earth in particular.

Saturn is such an alluring photographic target.

And so Discovery drove on toward Saturn, as often as not pulsating with the cool music of the harpsichord, the frozen thoughts of a brain that had been dust for twice a hundred years.

Even by the diverse standards of Saturn's satellites, Enceladus was an outlier. Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.

The inflated imitations of gold and silver, which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt. All scrips and bonds are wiped out. At the fourth pillar dedicated to Saturn, split by earthquake and flood: vexing everyone, an urn of gold is found and then restored.

For me, it was my first cosmic connection, on par with a first kiss. No other planet looks as unworldly or surreal as Saturn. When you see it floating in the eyepiece of your telescope, you feel as if you've uncovered mystery in the cosmos.