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Quotes About Jupiter

Onde Júpiter está, há interesse pela excelência e pela abordagem 'clássica' ou universal da vida.
~ Alice O. Howell
Weather forecast for Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia.
~ Heidi Hammel
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.
~ Carolyn Porco
The question mark," Jupiter said impressively, "is the universal symbol of something unknown. We are prepared to solve any puzzle, riddle, mystery, enigma or conundrum which may be brought to us. Hence the question mark will be our trade-mark. Three question marks will stand for The Three Investigators.
~ Robert Arthur
The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is in deplorable condition. Those monumental rocks, once enveloped in eternal night, are lit up now, and to make matters worse, every crag is carved with initials and monograms.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Io, Europa, Ganimedes puer, atque Calistolascivo nimium perplacuere Iovi.(Io, Europa, the boy Ganymede, and Callisto greatly pleased lustful Jupiter.)[Marius naming Jupiter's moons]
~ Simon Marius
Every thing has been achieved except for the gods to rule; for no one is free save Jupiter.
~ Aeschylus
the appointed day came, the birds assembled before Jupiter's throne; and, after passing them in review, he was about to make the Jackdaw king, when all the rest set upon the king-elect, stripped him of his borrowed plumes, and exposed him for the Jackdaw that he was.
~ Aesop
THE SHE-GOATS AND THEIR BEARDS Jupiter granted beards to the She-Goats at their own request, much to the disgust of the he-Goats, who considered this to be an unwarrantable invasion of their rights and dignities. So they sent a deputation to him to protest against his action. He, however, advised them not to raise any objections. "What's in a tuft of hair?" said he. "Let them have it if they want it. They can never be a match for you in strength.
~ Aesop
Honey, have you seen your sister?" She's on Jupiter, Mom.
~ Diane Duane
I believe that either Jupiter has life or it doesn't. But I neither believe that it does, nor do I believe that it doesn't.
~ Raymond Smullyan
However, Galileo got into trouble when he turned his telescope toward a wider horizon. The discovery of the four moons orbiting Jupiter — Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto — suggested that the Earth was not the centre of the universe about which all celestial bodies orbited. By challenging the geocentric model of the Solar System, Galileo found himself accused of heresy and was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life.
~ Andrew Thomas
The first real Cassini image that brought tears to my eyes was an image of Jupiter. I didn't expect it to look so detailed.
~ Carolyn Porco
I think that some of the earliest ideas in the modern period were actually from astronomy. You look at Galileo: He goes up and points his telescope up at Jupiter and finds out, hey, Jupiter has these moons.
~ Trevor Paglen
Followers of Jupiter Heliopolitanus had to meet in a sanctuary in the Trastevere district where water had a role to play, as in the temples of Atargatis which were complemented by a pool containing sacred fish. This Syrian goddess was part of a triad worshipped in Baalbek, with a divine son likened to Mercury:
~ Robert Turcan
war and peace also dominated the function of the sanans, leaping and singing priests grouped in two sodalities: twelve Salians of Mars and twelve of Quirinus, who respectively opened and closed the season, the first in March, the second in October, under the common protection of Jupiter, Mars and Quirinus.
~ Robert Turcan
Terminus was also another aspect of Jupiter, who had had to agree to cohabit with the god of boundaries in a temple whose roof had a hole in it, as sacrifices could be made to him only in the open air (Serv., Aen., 9, 446), which was true for the majority of public cults.
~ Robert Turcan
The fourth and last major college was that of the 'epulones', at first three, then seven and finally ten under Caesar, though that did nothing to change their title of septemviri epulones, whose task was to feed (epulari) Jupiter, together with Juno and Minerva on the Capitol, a feast to which senators were invited.
~ Robert Turcan
Only the 'king of the sacrifices' was excluded from public duties, and the flamen of Jupiter was subject to 'taboos' which in some respects isolated him from ordinary mortals; but those were exceptions that would disappear in the imperial era.
~ Robert Turcan
A Dalit needs Jupiter's escape velocity to achieve success.
~ Rahul Gandhi
Jupiter's welcome to more from his Juno if he can get it
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Scientists believe they may have discovered a primitive form of life on Jupiter's moon Europa. That primitive form of life? You guessed it, Frank Stallone.
~ Norm MacDonald
It was at Rome, on the fifteenth of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefoot friars were singing vespers in the Temple of Jupiter, that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
~ Edward Gibbon