Quotes About Space

It's Star Wars golf. This place was designed by Darth Vader.

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I'm a big Star Wars fan.

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.

The front[line] of wars is increasingly non-human eyes peering down on our perceived enemies from space, guiding missiles toward unseen targets.

We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn.

Lovely high ceilings, ' I said. 'If you were very tall, you'd feel quite comfortable in here.

Our marriage has always been a 50-50 proposition - with the possible exception of closet space.

The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

For nearly a hundred years, we have known that the material world is an illusion. Everything that seems solid - a rock, a tree, your body - is actually 99.999% empty space.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

Without space, there is no time.

Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart. (I. 192-93) HOW

Therefore we see at once that there cannot be any such thing as free-will; the very words are a contradiction, because will is what we know, and everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by conditions of time, space and causality. ... To acquire freedom we have to get beyond the limitations of this universe; it cannot be found here.

Robert Allen said something quite profound: "No thought lives in your head rent-free.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

For the Minuteman II missile, Texas Instruments had to design and produce twenty-two fairly standard types of circuits in integrated form; every one of those chips was readily adaptable to civilian computers, radio transmitters, and the like. A large number of the most familiar products of the microelectronic revolution, from the busy businessman's pocket beeper to the Action News Minicam ("film at eleven"), resulted directly from space and military development contracts.

Wisdom-gone-beyond is inexpressible, Inconceivable, and undefinable. Having the intrinsic nature of space it is nonarising and unceasing;It is the object of analytical insight. You, mother of the Buddhas in the three periods of time, I pay thee homage.

These descriptions allude to time/space dissolution, synesthesia (crossover of types of sensory perception) and altered states of consciousness.

She needed care and time; enough space not to feel threatened, but not so much that she could retreat.

All these private, parallel dimensions, underlying such an innocuous little estate; all these self-contained worlds layered onto the same space.

It does that to you, being a detective. You look at blank space and see gears turning, motives and cunning; nothing looks innocent any more. Most times when you prove away the gears, the blank space looks lovely, peaceful. But that arm: innocent, it looked just as dangerous.

Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death.