Quotes About Space

When we've defined femininity for their generation so narrowly, in such a sexualized, commercialized, heteroeroticized way, where is the space, the vision, the celebration of other ways to be a girl?

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space.

In the words of Shakespeare: "Now (our) my soul hath elbow room.

Dissent is the cousin of diversity; the respect for a wide range of beliefs. This begins by allowing people the space to say "no." If we cannot say "no" then "yes" has no meaning

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 is for an act of theatre to be engaged.

La NASA perdió el vídeo del primer aterrizaje en la Luna. En

I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it

I founded a launch company called International Microspace when I graduated medical school in 1989. We were trying to build a microsatellite launcher.

If we want our species to survive in the long term, human beings cannot afford to stop reaching for the stars.

Three hundred and twenty-eight wormholes were opened in unison. They were small, all of them measuring a metre and a half wide. Just enough for a ten-megatonne warhead to pass through. The wormholes closed.

Peter F. Hamilton

Laser radar guided the starship

Well, guess what happened when somebody's starship went poking around? The goddamn thing was packed full of scientists desperate to see what was inside. I mean, why you dumbasses see curiosity as one of your overriding virtues is anyone's guess. Ever heard of caution?

Astronauts got laid a lot .

For a moment he regretted not using the original configuration, a wormhole wide enough to swallow a gas giant. This was only a kilometer across. But it did extend for twenty-eight thousand light-years. It works. I was right. I was right about everything. The Anomine, the Raiel. Everything. "I win," he said softly, then shouted it. "I fucking win! And the universe knows it.

Peter F. Hamilton

Massive starship building programme initiated in O'Neill Halo. Govcentral begins large-scale enforced outshipment of surplus population, rising to 2 million a week in 2160: Great Dispersal.

We should take our time and reach the Dyson Pair as we expand naturally, not pull off this crazy Apollo stunt.

Peter F. Hamilton

iridescence of the massive ion storms that beset space for light

Peter F. Hamilton

Around them, the rest of the thirty-strong fleet was moving, spreading wide as they left the three habitats behind, assuming the broad circular formation that they would maintain for the next hundred thirty-seven light-years.

It docked at one of their national low orbit stations, the Spirit of Freedom