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 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
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
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
—Neil Armstrong (1930–2012) American Astronaut
Space is to place as eternity is to time.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
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
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
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
—Marshall Mcluhan (1911–80) Canadian Writer, Thinker, Educator
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
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
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
—Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) British Historian, Poet, Critic
Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space.
—Rebecca West (1892–1983) English Author, Journalist, Literary Critic
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) American Aerospace Engineer
It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
—T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic
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) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
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
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
—Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) English Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Academic
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
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
—Philip Johnson (1906–2005) American Architect, Curator, Designer
The sky is no longer the limit.
—Richard Nixon (1913–94) American Head of State, Lawyer
It was a thunderingly beautiful experience—voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
—Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.
—Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist
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
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
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
The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine…. If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
—Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American Novelist, Human Rights Activist
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-American Philosopher, Poet, Sculptor
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
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
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