Quotes About Interstellar

Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.

we currently live in a region—300 light-years across—called the Local Bubble, which is a vacuum-like domain with very low hydrogen density within the interstellar medium in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

Robert Heinlein's The Star Beast was

What kind of hard SF do I write? Everything from near-future, Earth-centric techno-thrillers to far-future, far-flung interstellar epics.

The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere.

Intellectually, he is like interstellar space - a vast vacuum occasionally crossed by homeless, wandering clichés.

in a world which stands upon the threshold of the chemistry of the atom, which is only beginning to fathom the mystery of interstellar space ... this poor world of ours which, however justifiably proud of its science, has created so little happiness for itself ...

A certain percentage of technological societies severely damage their own planets before they become mature enough to understand the damage they are doing. In the past, a number of species have gone extinct before they achieved interstellar flight because of that damage, usually through runaway biological warfare or atomic warfare, with its consequent radiation poisoning.

The advanced interstellar culture operates on a barter system. Never saw that one coming.

The CDF doesn't operate on-planet

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?