Quotes about Space

"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."

"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever."

"Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!"

"Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments and you will emerge into another space-time created by the singularity of the black hole you just fell into?"

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."

"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."

"Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding - yet beautiful - Sea of Tranquility. I could see our shining blue planet Earth poised in the darkness of space."

"At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space."

"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."

"If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?"

"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."

"The heart looks into space to be away from earth."

"You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos."

"They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one."

"When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen."

"Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."

"The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel."

"You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars."

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft."

"One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion stars have Earth-like planets going around them - that's huge, half a billion. So when we look at the night sky, it makes sense that someone is looking back at us."

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous."

"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."

"There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition."

"Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It's a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there."

"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other."

"In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!"

"Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out."

"After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'"

"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock."

"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."