Quotes About Space

Across time and space, the more peaceable societies also tend to be richer, healthier, better educated, better governed, more respectful of their women, and more likely to engage in trade.

The similarity between space and time is limpid enough that we routinely use space to represent time in calendars, hourglasses, and other time-keeping devices. And the cognitive similarity also shows up in everyday metaphors where spatial terms are borrowed to refer to time.

This uncovered a number of basic features of our thought processes: that the mind deploys a set of rival frames that can construe even the most plodding everyday event in more than one way; that a frame for thinking about a change of location in real space can be metaphorically extended to conceptualize a change of state as motion in state-space; and that when the mind conceives of an entity as being somewhere or going somewhere, it tends to melt it down to a holistic blob.

Time is nature's way to keep everything from happening at once. Space is nature's way to keep everything from happening to me.

A state is conceived as a location in a space of possible states, and change is equated with moving from one location to another in that state-space.

Where they differ is in the construal of those facts: how the intricate swirl of matter in space ought to be conceptualized by human minds.

Concepts of space seem to infect other concepts as well, as we saw in the first chapter when noting the way that people count and measure out events as if they were objects made of time-stuff. People also use space as a model for an abstract continuum when they speak of the rising or falling of their paycheck, their weight, or their spirits,38 or when they plot data points, representing anything whatsoever, on graph paper.

Nobody can prove that there is not between the Earth and Mars a china teapot revolving in an elliptic orbit.

I let go of all I no longer love, need, or use. I adore space.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

It isn't love when another person cannot give you the space to live your own life.

And you can't help but worry for them, love them, want for them - those who go on down the close, foetid galleries of time and space without you.

Love, when it is a sacred quest, is a space of resurrection and repair. It does more than help us survive a soulless world; it helps us to transform.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to create a space in which the director calls the shots.

God's love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it.

I know of no better definition of love than the one given by Proust - Love is space and time measured by the heart.

There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

Believe it or not, Id love to go to the moon.

When people have asked if I'd like to go in the Shuttle, I said you don't get to fly it, except for landing, which I'd love to do. I wouldn't go unless I could command it

All you can do is create a space for transformation to happen, for grace and love to enter.

Though thirty spokes may form the wheel, it is the hole within the hub which gives the wheel utility. It is not the clay the potter throws, which gives the pot its usefulness, but the space within the shape, from which the pot is made. Without a door, the room cannot be entered, and without its windows it is dark Such is the utility of non-existence.212