Space Quotes

Many try to go back to the past, despite the laws of space and time. You can try something simpler. Just turn your head back!

D'you know, in 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important before.

White noise, white noise, and more white noise. He tries the AM bands, then the FM. Nothing. Just that sound, like the sound of starlight scratching its way through outer space: kkkkkkkk.

We do it not because it's easy, but because it is hard

Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.

When you’re brave enough to let go of anything you don’t absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

When you’re brave enough to let go of anything you don’t absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.

Yet now, as he roared across the night sky toward and unknown destiny, he found himself facing that bleak and ultimate question which so few men can answer to their satisfaction. What have I done with my life, he asked himself, that the world will be poorer if I leave it.

They will have time enough, in those endless aeons, to attempt all things, and to gather all knowledge ... no Gods imagined by our minds have ever possessed the powers they will command ... But for all that, they may envy us, basking in the bright afterglow of Creation; for we knew the Universe when it was young.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming.

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.

I believe the Universe is infinite. And if you have infinite space, there are infinite possibilities. Anything I can think of or say or think has already been thought up before—somewhere. Somewhere in time there is a planet, probably not very unlike ours, where death does not exist anymore. There is no pain, or war, or disease. I imagined it, haven’t I? So it must exist.

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.

Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity - distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.