Quotes About Space

The elevator was of the new sort that ran by gravitic repulsion. Gaal entered and others flowed in behind him. The operator closed a contact. For a moment, Gaal felt suspended in space as gravity switched to zero, and then he had weight again in small measure as the elevator accelerated upward. Deceleration followed and his feet left the floor. He squawked against his will. The operator called out, Tuck your feet under the railing. Can't you read the sign?

Es una lección invariable a la humanidad que la distancia en el tiempo, y asimismo en el espacio, da perspectiva a las cosas.

But with the creature from worlds beyond space sitting in the midst of it

el hombre ha tratado siempre de rehuir el concepto de infinitud, ya sea del espacio o del tiempo, como algo imposible de concebir y entender, y por ende, como un concepto con el que no es fácil trabajar ni razonar.

The Jump remained, and would probably remain forever, the only practical method of travelling between the stars.

Ahora era precisamente aquel mundo frío, gris y miserable que le había parecido en un principio, pero su gente estaba llena de calor y vida. Era gente real, sólida. Solaria, Aurora, los otros mundos espaciales que había visitado o contemplado en hipervisión, parecían llenos de gente insustancial, «gaseosa». Esa era la palabra. «Gaseosos.»

How small can you make the whole gadget?" "Hyper-relays can be had micro-size Ã¢â'¬Â¦ wiring Ã¢â'¬Â¦ chips—Space, you've got a few hundred circuits there.

Cooper del Setenta y ocho, perdido en el Veinte, llama a la Eternidad...

If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown.

Ha séta?rhajón volnánk, talán el is lehetne intézni. De mi a nap iránt fogunk leereszkedni. Gondolom, nem akarsz egyszerre megvakulni, megsülni és sugárfertÅ'zést kapni, nem igaz?

A civilization that is expanding through space will not need our few worlds and will probably be too intellectually advanced to feel the need to batter its way into hegemony here. If, however, we are surrounded by a more lively, a more vibrant civilization, we will wither away by the mere force of the comparison; we will die of the realization of what we have become and of the potential we have wasted.

With the blind jumps we took through hyperspace, it's lucky we didn't land up in a sun's belly.

You can't get lost in space

The other dragged at his mustache bitterly. "He's a skeptic," was the bitter response. "He doesn't believe we made him or that Earth exists or space or stars." "Sizzling Saturn, we've got a lunatic robot on our hands.

You get it? There isn't any industrial research group of any size that isn't trying to develop a space-warp engine, and Consolidated and U.S. Robots have the lead on the field with our super robot-brains. Now that they've managed to foul theirs up, we have a clear field. That's the nub, the . . . uh . . . motivation. It will take them six years at least to build another and they're sunk, unless they can break ours, too, with the same problem.

a Galaxis a vesztébe rohan!

Ellos se extenderán por la Galaxia a un ritmo que irá en aumento, sin la Tierra para mirar con nostalgia, sin la Tierra en forma de un dios, y establecerán un Imperio Galáctico. Era preciso que lo hiciéramos posible. Hizo una pausa, y su voz se debilitó al decir: «Robots e Imperio».

Great Space!' Hardin felt annoyed. 'What is this? Every once in a while someone mentions "Emperor" or "Empire" as if it were a magic word. The Emperor is fifty thousand parsecs away, and I doubt whether he gives a damn about us. And if he does, what can he do? What there was of the imperial navy in these regions is in the hands of the four kingdoms now and Anacreon has its share. Listen, we have to fight with guns, not with words.

She had shopped all on her own along the Flowered Path, fashion center of the gayest world in space.

Haber Limmar Ponyets'in al?c?s?na eriÅŸtiÄŸi s?rada genç adam?n vücudu sabun köpüÄŸü içindeydi. Bu da insan? tele ayg?tlarla tam banyodayken arad?klar?yla ilgili kliÅŸeleÅŸmiÅŸ sözün Galaksinin Çevresinde, karanl?k ve soÄŸuk uzayda bile geçerli olduÄŸunu kan?tl?yordu.

The senior lieutenant of the Dark Nebula stared in horror at the visiplate. 'Great Galloping Galaxies!

The stars, like dust, encircle me In living mists of light; And all of space I seem to see In one vast burst of sight.

Nothing can grow in the shade of secrets, she would say, love needs light and space to flourish.

the heart is like a box; if it is filled with rubbish, there is no space for other things.