Quotes About Space

Nor time nor placeDid then adhere.

Now my soul hath elbow-room.

The mysteriousness and mystique of space is such, that science fiction attempts to tantalize you by telling you a story that could possibly be out there and that's the appeal of science fiction.

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.

Eighteen thousand miles from the moon is some slide, but I'll get up there again some way!

The destiny of mankind is not decided by material computation. When great causes are on the move in the world… we learn that we are spirits, not animals, and that something is going on in space and time, and beyond space and time, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.

Bare empty space is a relative new conception — one that would be alien, unfamiliar, and incomprehensible to people of primal and ancient cultures. If we think of these earlier views of space and time as naive, misinformed, and anthropomorphic, we must at least recognize the sense of home, security, and support the earlier conceptions of space gave to those who believed and dwelt in them. We have given up this nourishing quality of space — of our abode — at our peril.

Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought, particularly for people who cannot remember where they left things.

Language is inherently not concerned with logic. As an expression of the psychological activities of humankind, it simply follows a linear process as it seeks actualisation. Moreover, it does not obey the objective concepts of time and space that belong to the physical world. When the discussion of time and space is imported into linguistic art from scientific aims and research methods, that linguistic art is entirely reduced to trifling pseudo-philosophical issues.

Your body falling through space touches the deepest part of me.

A reaction is automatic, habitual," Ludo said. "A response is considered. That's the difference. What's important is to create space, to open ourselves up to possibilities beyond the habitual, which rarely serve us well. Anger is never an enlightened response. We may be wrathful—speaking in mock-angry tones to stop a child who is about to step near a fire, for example—but that's very different from real anger.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. Description or law, it challenged the theory of special creation and bruited the idea of evolution in a tone of thunderous innuendo.

The mind is an organ of creation; it organizes matter and energy, manipulates time and space. It organizes chaos into narrative.

You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud.

A teenager stood there. Right in the middle of my living room, a space that had been proudly teenager-free for years.

Truth is quantum. It is beyond space and time. Relativity only proves this.

Black and white seems a journey into space which is destined back to earth.

I am merely an insignificant creature on a microscopic blue dot in the vastness of space.

Every one of our thoughts needs freedom and space in order to bloom and express beauty.

You cannot reach space without overcoming the attraction of gravity.

The phenomenon of UFO doesn't say anything about the presence of intelligence in space. It just shows how rare it is here on the earth.

older, I've got a clear space around me I didn't have before. I wonder if that's like a future, or a place where a future will be.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.