Space Quotes

When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand ...

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space b...

[P]erhaps the burrows in which our lives were spent really were dark and dirty, and perhaps we ourse...

...but since I realised that peace and freedom were unattainable on earth, my spirit aspired aloft, ...

But as Van casually directed the searchlight of backthought into that maze of the past where the mir...

To touch my person to some one else's is about as much as I can stand,

Be for Man the memory of Earth and Origin. Remember this Earth. Never forget her, but — never come b...

Poor sleepers should endeavor to compose themselves. Tampering with empty space, stirring up echoes ...

Perhaps I seek certain utopian things, space for human honour and respect, landscapes not yet offend...

It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him t...

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the wrong planet.

We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast o...

By reflecting a little on this subject I am almost convinced that those numberless small Circuses we...

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which...

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Language is a virus from outer space.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of th...

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and se...

It’s hard to build models of inflation that don't lead to a multiverse. It’s not impossible, so I th...

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot ...

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was s...

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.

It is a special blessing to belong among those who can and may devote their best energies to the con...

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of ...

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with differ...

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.

Yoga is the space where flower blossoms.

As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not...

It all goes aroundIt all goes aroundThe planet goes around the sunIt all goes aroundMy mother said i...

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants...

You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers...

What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We sp...

One thing seems certain. Our galaxy is now in the brief springtime of its life—a springtime made glo...

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...