Oort Quotes & Sayings

We tend to become social core groups, whatever our similar interest and background where we came through. It tends to be a filter through which people see themselves. It can be all different ethnicities. They can see themselves as San Franciscans, or Warriors fans. You want to build a tribe of viral advocates for that team. — Peter Guber

A gentleman is never in a hurry. — Andre Maurois

Hope is more the consequence of action than its cause. As the experience of the spectator favors fatalism, so the experience of the agent produces hope. — Roberto Mangabeira Unger

I don't care what your Oort woman wants you to steal for her," she says. "You already did your worst. You stole what could have been. From me and from yourself. And you can never have it back. — Hannu Rajaniemi

Pluto is about 40 AUs from us, the heart of the Oort cloud about fifty thousand. In a word, it is remote. But — Bill Bryson

He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others. — Orison Swett Marden

Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars. — Carl Sagan

As an Odd-Fish, it is not my job to be right,' said Sir Oort. 'It is my job to be wrong in new and exciting ways. — James Kennedy

You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy. — Richelle Mead

Even today, more than eighty years after Oort's bold guess, we still don't have a clue what this dark matter is made of. We know it exists. We know where it is. We have maps of its presence within and around galaxies throughout the universe. We even have stringent constraints on what it is not, but we have no clue what it is. And yes, its presence is overwhelming: for every one kilogram of ordinary matter made out of neutrons and protons and electrons, there are five kilograms of dark matter, made out of who-knows-what. — Christophe Galfard

I wanted to live up to expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And — Sherman Alexie

The problem with insight, sensitivity, and intuition is that they tend to confirm our biases. — Naomi Weisstein

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy. — Diana Ross

We can't see even into the Oort cloud, so we don't actually know that it is there. Its existence is probable but entirely hypothetical.1 About — Bill Bryson

Never aim to be proactive with your day. That way, if you end up getting stuff done, you're never disappointed. — George Blagden