It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
The sun is gone, but I have a light. Kurt Cobain
How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! John Muir
My sun sets to rise again. Robert Browning
Proximity to the sun doesn’t guarantee warmth. Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey II, BBC 2012
There are thousands of objects circling the sun trapped by its immense gravitational field. ibid.
Our orbit isn’t exactly the same every time. ibid.
Copernicus put the sun at the centre of the heavens. Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 6/13: The Starry Messenger, BBC 1973
The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun. Thomas Paine, Age of Reason
The sun is not the primary factor driving the climate change we are living through right now. Dr Bob Bindschadler
Sunspots do not cause climate change, say scientists: Key claim of global warming sceptics debunked. The Independent article
I was amazed to find that there was a very serious reduction in the amount of sunlight in Israel. In fact if we compare those very early measurements from the 1950s with the current measurements there was a staggering 22% drop in the sunlight. And that really amazed me. Dr Gerard Stanhill, Israeli Agricultural Research Organisation, cited Horizon
I am of the opinion that the major natural effect comes from the sun, and specifically from variations in solar activity. Fred Singer
The more sunspots the warmer the Earth’s temperature. Global Warming or Global Governance? PSTV 2008
The sun is driving climate change: CO2 is irrelevant. Piers Corbyn
The origin of our solar weather technique of long-range forecasting came originally from the study of sun spots and a desire to predict those. Piers Corbyn, Weather Action
The truth about global warming – it’s the Sun to blame. Telegraph online article 17th July 2004
The sun is absent for up to half a year in the polar regions. When it returns at the beginning of spring its warmth will transform this magical ice-world. David Attenborough, Frozen Planet II: Spring, BBC 2011
The sun’s rays only have a direct effect on the top one hundred metres or so of the ocean. David Attenborough, The Blue Planet II: The Deep, BBC 2017
Over half a mile down at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico they came to what appeared to be an underwater lake ... Hundreds of thousands of mussels ... Rich oasis of life totally independent of the sun’s energy. ibid.
Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down. Isaiah 38:8
The sun shall be no more thy light by day.
The sun shall no more go down. Isaiah 60:19&20
There is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
A man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and be merry. Ecclesiastes 8:15
Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun. Ecclesiastes 11:7
And again, observe ye the days of summer how the sun is above the earth over against it. And you seek shade and shelter by reason of the heat of the sun, and the earth also burns with growing heat, and so you cannot tread on the earth, or on a rock by reason of its heat. Enoch 1:4
When a king died he became the sun-god. He united with the sun as one person ... The biggest fear for the ancient Egyptians – that the king and the sun-god will not make this trip. The world will end. Dr Zahi Hawass
The sun comes up one hour earlier for every fifteen degrees you go east, or later if you go the same distance west. James Burke, Connections s2e4: Bright Ideas, BBC 1994
140 million kilometres from planet Earth a cosmic powerhouse shapes our world … a giant nuclear reactor one million times bigger than Earth. Strip the Cosmos: The Sun, Science 2014
The outside is an ocean of whirling plasma. ibid.
The Sun – our nearest star. In Autumn 2003 it unleashed an eruption of energy equal to two hundred billion hydrogen bombs ... We live at the constant mercy of the sun. The Sun, Discovery 2015
It weighs 300,000 times that of Earth. ibid.
The monument’s primary function – to mark the passage of the sun. Operation Stonehenge: What Lies Beneath? II, BBC 2014
Give me the splendid silent sun. Walt Whitman
If the sun were to disappear right now, if the sun were to suddenly vanish, it would take eight minutes before we would even deal with the shockwave and see the effects of a disappearing sun. Michio Kaku
A supernova can outshine an entire galaxy releasing trillions of times the energy of our sun. Michio Kaku
The sun is in the two-thirds easterly quadrant. The Office US s4e11: Survivor Man, Michael in forest, NBC 2007
The world is divided up between people who like to watch the sunset and those who don’t. After the Sunset 2004 starring Pierce Brosnan & Woody Harrelson & Don Cheadle & Salma Hayek & Naomie Harris & Chris Penn & Mykelti Williamson & Obba Babatunde & Russell Hornsby & Rex Linn et al, director Brett Ratner, Harrelson to Brosnan
In Bosnia, Herzegovina, hundreds claim to witness the sun dancing in the sky: is it a rare weather phenomena? The Unexplained Files s2e11: Shadow People & The Sun Miracle, Science 2013
Our star, our sun, its light and heat are essential for our world, essential for us. Beginning deep inside the sun we’ll detail the journey of a single particle of light, a photon. How the Universe Works s3e1: Journey from the Centre of the Sun, Discovery 2014
Deep inside the sun nuclear reactions are constantly occurring … It may have taken the light as much as a million years to escape from the sun’s raging interior. ibid.
The sun contains nearly 99.8% of all the matter in our solar system. ibid.
There’s a violent star at the centre of our solar system. And our planet is at its mercy. The sun is a churning cauldron of nuclear reactions. How the Universe Works s9e4: Secrets of the Sun
‘What actually accelerates the wind away from the sun? … These acoustic waves transport particles with them to give them energy.’ ibid. Michelle Thaller
Human sacrifice, fantastic architectural achievement, entire cultures dedicated to the sun. Are these also haunting reminders of earlier civilisations? Or do these silent sentinels point the way to the future? In Search of s5e24 … Sun Worshippers, 1981
There are over 100 billion stars in our galaxy. But only one has been known to create the conditions for life. Wonders of the Sun with Dara O’Briain I, BBC 2024
Our sun is also a gigantic powerful and unpredictable nuclear reactor ready to strike at any moment. ibid.
One day it’s going to destroy us all. ibid.
As gravity squashes the hydrogen atoms they fuse to create helium and release energy. ibid.
In the UK one in twenty suffer from seasonal affective disorder. ibid.