Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go—and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.
—Wernher von Braun (1912–77) German-born American Engineer, Scientist
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.
—Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English Novelist, Scriptwriter
Love is space and time measured by the heart.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
The sky is no longer the limit.
—Richard Nixon (1913–94) American Head of State, Lawyer
It’s only during an eclipse that the Man in the Moon has a place in the sun.
—Unknown
It is good to renew one’s wonder, said the philosopher.
Space travel has again made children of us all.
—Ray Bradbury (b.1920) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
Space is the breath of art.
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American Architect
The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
—Unknown
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
—Democritus (c.460–c.370 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.
—Dan Quayle (b.1947) American Head of State, Politician, Elected Rep
Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face.
—Arthur Koestler (1905–83) British Writer, Journalist, Political Refugee
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
—Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) English Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Academic
Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.
—Oprah Winfrey (b.1954) American TV Personality
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind’s focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
—Vanna Bonta (1958–2014) Italian-American Novelist, Poet, Actress
Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.
—William S. Burroughs (1914–97) American Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer, Painter
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
—Anais Nin (1903–77) French-American Essayist
Acoustic space has the basic character of a sphere whose focus or centre is simultaneously everywhere and whose margin is nowhere.
—Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator
When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then… The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
—Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American Astronaut
There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
It was a thunderingly beautiful experience—voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
—Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought—particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don’t call us, we’ll call you.
—Marlene Dietrich (1901–92) German-American Film Actress, Cabaret Performer
Our ancestors worshipped the Sun, and they were not that foolish.
It makes sense to revere the Sun and the stars, for we are their children.
—Carl Sagan (1934–96) American Astronomer
Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
—Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American Astronaut
Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
—Eric Hoffer (1902–83) American Philosopher, Author
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
—Napoleon I (1769–1821) Emperor of France
From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
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