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Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

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Lynn MargulisMicrocosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

Lords of space and Lords of time,Lords of blessing, Lords of grace,Who is in the warmer clime?Who wi...

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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and ...

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All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and ...

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, ...

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Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to...

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I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more ...

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Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When you'...

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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady p...

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A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake ag...

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The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bo...

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People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks ...

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipul...

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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights Thou hast another time and space as well.

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the ...

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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...

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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments...

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I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Unive...

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The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practic...

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Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values ...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not h...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only wi...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for th...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more of...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe bu...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could beg...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space...

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Neil deGrasse TysonThe Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

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Norbert WienerThe Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

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Orhan PamukThe Museum of Innocence

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size,...

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He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the m...

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We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah,...

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Seulement la terre qui obéit,sait bien qu'elle tourne en rond,tandis que nous vers l'infininous préc...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is v...

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We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks a...

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Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem t...

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…the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.

For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which fe...

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When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," abou...

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Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferr...

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The dawn of space travel is the dawn of woman.

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Samuel R. DelanyStars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand

As I'm sure you may know, I'm planning to become a spaceflight participant and have been recently ap...

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All those minds that are interested in finding out the truth communicate with each other across the ...

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Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

How many extraordinary phenomena like this, so foreign to human comprehension, might lie concealed i...

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Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is b...

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Stanisław LemHighcastle: A Remembrance

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What?...

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He also said - pointedly - that space travel nowadays was an escape from the problems of Earth. That...

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Stanisław LemThe Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy

The role played by time at the beginning of the universe is, I believe, the final key to removing th...

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My advice to any heartbroken young girl is to pay close attention to the study of theoretical physic...

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Today will still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for...

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Time does not give one much leeway: it thrusts us forward from behind, blows us through the narrow t...

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Time and space were, from Death's point of view, merely things that he'd heard described. When it ca...

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There are some laws that are coded into the very nature of the universe, and one is: There Is Never ...

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Terry PratchettThe Science of Discworld II: The Globe

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroun...

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There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...

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The sky is where mathematics and magic become one.

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Tony AbbottThe Forbidden Stone

We live well in the houses, well enough, but we are ruled utterly by fear. There was a time we saile...

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

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

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

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

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

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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...

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Walter M. Miller, Jr.A Canticle for Leibowitz

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

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Walter de la MareGreat Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

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

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

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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...

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

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

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

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William JoyceNicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

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...

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Abraham LincolnSpeeches And Letters Of Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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

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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...

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

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Aldous HuxleyThe Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

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

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