Saturn Quotes

“Only since the collapse of the Soviet Union have we learned that the Soviets were in fact developing a moon rocket, known as the N1, in the sixties. All four launch attempts of the N1 ended in explosions. Saturn was the largest rocket in the world, the most complex and powerful ever to fly, and remains so to this day. The fact that it was developed for a peaceful purpose is an exception to every pattern of history, and this is one of the legacies of Apollo.”

“I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.”

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

“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”

“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”

“We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!”

“You and those shot-glass eyes, deep swirling pools of 80-proof firewater, with the depth and profundity of Saturn’s spinning pulsars…”

“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.”

“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.”