Space Quotes

Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He wo...

Slowly, Jimmy held up his outstretched hands. Men had been arguing for two hundred years about this ...

Bowman was aware of some changes in his behavior patterns; it would have been absurd to expect anyth...

The Chairman glared across three hundred and eighty thousand kilometers of space at Conrad Taylor, w...

Feeling extremely foolish, the acting representative of Homo sapiens watched his First Contact strid...

We both wondered whether these contradictions that one can't avoid if one begins to think of time an...

If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun...

For the moment we might very well can them DUNNOS (for Dark Unknown Nonreflective Nondetectable Obje...

Worse still, it isn’t actually necessary to look to space for petrifying danger. As we are about to ...

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of...

Going back to the moon is not visionary in restoring space leadership for America. Like its Apollo p...

Humanity is destined to explore, settle, and expand outward into the universe.

Einstein, twenty-six years old, only three years away from crude privation, still a patent examiner,...

The creature was there, a curiously shaped creature no doubt, but all loathing had vanished clean ou...

(Of the main character seeing a new world for the first time.) The air was cold but not bitterly so,...

There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation o...

Birds know, better than humans, not to spoil the nest.

For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled. Even after 400 ge...

Billions of years from now our sun, then a distended red giant star, will have reduced Earth to a ch...

The suppression of uncomfortable ideasmay be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path...

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all ...

Observation: I can’t see a thing.Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

Our television signals leave this planet and go out into space...the signals spread out from the ear...

Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall -...

At the very moment that humans discovered the scale of the universe and found that their most uncons...

Let's see if I got this right," she would say to herself. "I've taken an inert gas that's in the air...

The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes o...

National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious...

Something very strange is going on in the depths of space.

The laws of nature cannot be randomly reshuffled at the cusps [of an oscillating universe]. If the u...

We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of T...

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with...

By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the...

We tend to hear much more about the splendors returned than the ships that brought them or the shipw...

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we ...

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you k...

I do not think it irresponsible to portray even the direst futures if we are to avoid them we must u...

Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What ...

The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: O...

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from ...

Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them...

Nothing puzzles me more than the time and space and yet nothing troubles me less.

NASA are idiots. They want to send canned primates to Mars!" Manfred swallows a mouthful of beer, ag...

How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our might...

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Freedom was a thing that shifted as you looked at it, the way a forest is dense with the trees up cl...

Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die!

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir...

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being s...

Even in dying, a Thennanin ship was reputed to be not worth putting out of its misery. In battle the...

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of p...

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

Your mind is the knife that cuts the continuum of space and time into neat slices of linear experien...

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m strickenby the ricochet wonder of it all: the plaineverything...

Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big ...

It is a West zone planet which by an inexplicable and somewhat suspicious freak of topography consis...

The best conversation I had was over forty million years ago,' continued Marvin.Again the pause. 'Oh...

Or that other bullshit, 'I need more space.' People never quantify exactly how much space they need,...

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

The moment that judgement stops through acceptance of what it is, you are free of the mind. You have...

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of ...

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with ...

Away from the safety of your home, the universe was not made for your convenience.

Success is the space one occupies in the newspaper. Success is one day's insolence.

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one's ...

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill ...

You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and ...

I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky thi...

Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and liste...

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. T...

But we must not forget that all things in the world are connected with one another and depend on one...

It is altogether reasonable to conclude that the heavenly bodies, alias worlds, which move or are si...

Hierarchical formulations died because their wedding cake levels posited a multiply fractured cosmos...

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we...

Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely reveal...

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all the houses of the pas...

For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determin...

Therefore, the places in which we have experienced day dreaming reconstitute themselves in a new day...

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one ...

When the image is new, the world is new.

Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and...

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, ...

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space...

Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.

Just because your electronics are better than ours, you aren't necessarily superior in any way. Look...

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning...

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a sma...

This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in ...

The word psychogeography, suggested by an illiterate Kabyle as a general term for the phenomena a fe...

Perhaps I am a man of exceptional moods. I do not know how far my experience is common. At times I s...

I live in the present due to the constraints of the time-space continuum.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like ...

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where pas...

Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And the...

Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, l...