Quotes About Space

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

Life itself is only a vision, a dream. Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

Notwithstanding all this furniture, there was still room to turn around in, but not to swing a cat in, at least with entire security to the cat. However, the room was large, for a ship's stateroom, and was in every way satisfactory.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

There was still room enough left for a visitor - maybe two, but not without straining the walls. But the walls could stand it- at least the partitions could, for they consisted simply of one thickness of white cotton domestic stretched from corner to corner of the room. This was the rule in Carson - any other kind of partition the rare exception. And if you stood in a dark room and your neighbors in the next had lights, the shadows on your canvas told queer secrets sometimes.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Unoccupied space will never cease to change simply because nothing forbids it to do so.

An echo, while implying an enormity of a space, at the same time also defines it, limits it, and even temporarily inhabits it.

What we see, how we see and what in turn we can't see. Over and over again, in one form or another, he returns to the subject of light, space, shape, line, color, focus, tone, contrast, movement, rhythm, perspective and composition.

and I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real.

Divinity seems definid by echo. (...) The reason for that is not too complex. An echo, while implying an enormity of a space, at the same time also defines it, limits it, and even temporarily inhabits it.

At that moment, Liesel was amazed by the width of the doorway. There was so much space. Why did people need so much space to get through the door? Had Rudy been there, he'd have called her an idiot—it was to get all their stuff inside.

But "nowhere" does not mean nothing; rather, region in general lies therein, and disclosedness of the world in general for essentially spatial being-in. Therefore, what is threatening cannot come closer from a definite direction within nearness, it is already "there" - and yet nowhere. It is so near that it is oppressive and takes one's breath - and yet it is nowhere.

Ser significa habitar persistiendo a través de los espacios sobre la base de la permanencia junto a cosas y lugares.

Tendríamos que aprender a reconocer que las cosas mismas son los lugares y que no se limitan a pertenecer a un lugar.

Y qué sería del vacío del espacio? Con demasiada frecuencia, el vacío aparece tan sólo como una falta. El vacío pasa entonces por una falta de algo que llene los espacios huecos y los intersticios. Sin embargo, el vacío está presumiblemente hermanado con el carácter peculiar del lugar y, por ello, no es un echar en falta, sino un producir.

Our nation may be able to put a man on the moon in a few years, but it still cannot find out how to put a Negro in the legislature of Mississippi or put an unemployed worker back on the job. I have nothing against exploration of the moon or the planets, but if we can reach so high that we can challenge the mysteries and dangers of space, surely we can challenge the poverty and discrimination under our feet.

They were specific about symptoms of grief—the sensations of choking, shortness of breath, feelings of emptiness, endless crying. But nothing warned her that when she wasn't experiencing those symptoms of anguish, all that was left was a sense of meaninglessness. A great, vast gray space of nothingness

The true scientific mind is not to be tied down by its own conditions of time and space. It builds itself an observatory erected upon the border line of present, which separates the infinite past from the infinite future. From this sure post it makes its sallies even to the beginning and to the end of all things. As

Si un cometa chocara contra este montón de polvo nuestro y lo convirtiera en mil millones de fragmentos que salieran disparados hacia el espacio, si su ardiente aliento lamiera cada forma de vida como una polilla se marchita con una vela, todavía, al final de mil millones de años, la más diminuta partícula de nuestros cuerpos seguiría existiendo.

The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical

One conclusion which emerged from this imaginary operation was that all changes in electric and magnetic force (for instance, those caused by an oscillating circuit) sent waves spreading through space; and that these waves had the same transverse character, and the same speed, as light. 'We can scarcely avoid the inference', he wrote in a monumental sentence, 'that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic phenomena.

All organisation is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition just as two objects cannot occupy the same space