Quotes About Space

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

Stars are extremely far apart. We cannot imagine any way currently available to get to the nearest one, besides the sun.

I want the government to focus on the stuff we cannot yet do, like beginning to learn how we can live in space long enough to go to Mars or how to build and operate human communities on the Moon and Mars.

We cannot wait for the next Kennedy to set us on our path to the stars.

Just as a city cannot protect its manufacturing base without keeping its factories, we cannot have a strong arts sector without studios, rehearsal space, and performance venues.

Our television transmitters leak out from the Earth. And actually, there's a sphere surrounding the Earth from the earliest television signals, maybe 70 years ago, that's going out one light year per year. But it's really weak.

Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.

Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space.

Three decades ago, in a top story of the century, Americans placed six flags on the Moon. Today we no longer try for new and bold space achievements; instead, we celebrate the anniversaries of the past.

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space.

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

Bathrooms on the plane are so small. Where are you supposed to change a baby?

We will have to leave this planet, and we're going to leave it, and it's going to make this planet better.

I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space.

Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

There's no question that if we stay on planet Earth and never leave, that eventually we'll be wiped out.

The truth is, every single rocket launch off of planet Earth is risky.

Absolutely the most fun thing to do in space and rewarding thing, in many ways, is to look back at planet Earth.

Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology.

As you may know, I'm the co-founder and co-chairman of an asteroid company called Planetary Resources that is backed by a group of eight billionaires to implement the bold mission of extracting resources from near-Earth asteroids.

My field is called planetary science.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations.