Quotes About Space

A satellite has no conscience.

It is high time that I should pass from these brief and discursive notes about things in Flatland to the central event of this book, my initiation into the mysteries of Space. THAT is my subject; all that has gone before is merely preface.

By Me the whole vast Universe of things Is spread abroad;—by Me, the Unmanifest! In Me are all existences contained; Not I in them! Yet they are not contained, Those visible things! Receive and strive to embrace The mystery majestical! My Being— Creating all, sustaining all—still dwells Outside of all! See! as the shoreless airs Move in the measureless space, but are not space, [And space were space without the moving airs]; So all things are in Me, but are not I.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

anthropologists speak of ritual leadership and ritual space.

Ã…Ëœíct znamená spoutat ztracené ?asy a prostory.

Le balcon s'avançait dans le vide comme le tremplin d'une piscine.

De dónde llegan las fechas y a dónde van? Viajan un año entero y con la precisión de una saeta se clavan en el día señalado, nos muestran un pasado, un presente en el espacio, nos deslumbran y se apagan.

Un punto luminoso determina un valle. Ese instante geométrico se une al momento de esta piedra y de la superposición de espacios que forman el mundo imaginario, la memoria me devuelve intactos aquellos días; y ahora

En ese instante retrocedían a un lugar sin lugar, sin espacio, sin luz. Solo le quedaba el recuerdo del peso de las catedrales sobre sus cuerpos sin cuerpo. Perdió su otra memoria y perdió también el privilegio de la luz asombrosa. —

Mentally damaged people need more room than the normal sort, they can't be put off with excuses, and they need at least as much space to run around in as a medium-sized sheep dog.

One lives in the naïve notion that later there will be more room than in the entire past.

A low bluish cloudbank was rapidly encroaching over the starry black vault of the sky.

IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN to Nearside you'll certainly know of the Overview Effect— there are whole towers, observation decks and hotels named after it. The Overview Effect is what happens when a human being surveys Earth from a sizable distance out in space. The Apollo astronauts were the first to feel the full force of it: that mind-blowing moment

inasmuch as a dead rock wants anything—it wants you dead too. So you can go quickly. A landslide can bury you. A lava tube can collapse on you. You can plunge headlong into a crater. A meteoroid can strike your habitat at seventy thousand kilometers per hour. A micrometeorite can bust open your spacesuit. A sudden burst of static electricity can blow

The Moon is a dead rock—eighty-one quintillion tons

Bohm's solution was simple and logical. We have been wrongly interpreting the nature of matter and the universe itself. The message never travelled across space and time at all because both these constructs are an illusion brought about by the brain. In fact the two particles were really one particle all the time and as such they both 'knew' what was happening to each of them.

When I think about myself, my thought seeks itself in the ether of a new space. I am on the moon as others are on their balconies. I participate in planetary gravitation in the fissures of my mind.

I have a fantastic studio in my home, and it's my biggest toy. I have about a half a million dollars worth of musical equipment in my house.

The tagline for Alien said: In space no one can hear you scream. But the film had audiences screaming for decades after.

A fickle goddess Thought at times-- Try ne'er so hard we catch her not. We try to think: 'tis all in vain-- Imprisoned never is a thought. Like lightning flashing through the clouds, It comes--a light, and then is gone, A star which falls adown through space, Again it comes as morning dawn.

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.