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Quotes About Space

Space we can recover; time never.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Information is a substitute for time, space, capital, and labor.
~ Alvin Toffler
Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping of space and time, stuff like that.
~ Michio Kaku
Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
UBIQUITY, n. The gift or power of being in all places at one time, but not in all places at all times, which is omnipresence, an attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only.
~ Ambrose Bierce
This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.
~ Judith Butler
Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
Then time seemed to stop, or rather to lose its directional urgency of movement; it became a place in the open where one stood rather than a low, narrow corridor down which one was hurried.
~ Fritz Leiber
[The evidence from cosmology] determines that the cause of the universe is functionally equivalent to the God of the Bible, a Being beyond the matter, energy, space, and time of the cosmos.
~ Hugh Ross
I would like the colors, their shapes and positions to be arrived at in response to and dictated by the condition of the total space at the time they are considered.
~ Richard Diebenkorn
Time and space are not conditions of existence, time and space is a model for thinking
~ Albert Einstein
(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.
~ Roger Wolcott Sperry
I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.
~ Gottfried Leibniz
The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time.
~ Fred Sandback
Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.
~ Robert Bringhurst
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle to fix the things that had gone wrong.
~ Sally Ride
Formerly, people thought that if matter disappeared from the universe, space and time would remain. Relativity declares that space and time would disappear with matter.
~ Albert Einstein
Far from being accidental details, the properties of nature's basic building blocks are deeply entwined with the fabric of space and time.
~ Brian Greene
I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.
~ Jeff Mangum
Time is in the mind, space is in the mind. The law of cause and effect is also a way of thinking. In reality all is here and now and all is one. Multiplicity and diversity are in the mind only.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
For tribal man, space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
~ Marshall McLuhan
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials.
~ Marvin Minsky