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Quotes About Space

Man is not made for space. But with the help of biologists and medical doctors, he can be prepared and accommodated.
~ Wernher von Braun
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
~ Le Corbusier
I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.
~ Peter Brook
I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.
~ Gene Cernan
The Space Shuttle is the most effective device known to man for destroying dollar bills.
~ Dana Rohrabacher
Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.
~ Gene Cernan
I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.
~ Eartha Kitt
Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.
~ Johannes Kepler
God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.
~ Pope Pius XII
Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.
~ Buzz Aldrin
The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.
~ Hermann Oberth
Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.
~ Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.
~ Adrian Rogers
What freedom lies in flying, what Godlike power it gives to men . . . I lose all consciousness in this strong unmortal space crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.
~ Charles Lindbergh
My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite as space.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.
~ Meher Baba
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum
~ George Bernard Shaw
In the consciousness of eternity, time is not, neither is space. In man's consciousness there appears so much mercy, so much love, that these have been called time and space.
~ Edgar Cayce
If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.
~ Krafft Arnold Ehricke
Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bomc,' I said. 'We have a protractor.' Okay, I'll go home and see if I can scrounge up a ruler and a piece of string.
~ Neal Stephenson
The qualifications for being a Scout seemed to be a shocking level of physical endurance, a complete disregard for mortal danger, and some knowledge of how to exist in a space suit. All of them were Russian.
~ Neal Stephenson
The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished, sphincters. When the Deliverator puts the hammer down, shit happens.
~ Neal Stephenson
Topology is destiny,' he said, and put the drawers on. One leg at a time.
~ Neal Stephenson