Quotes About Space

Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down ? That's not my department.

Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.

Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.

I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

We have seen pictures [of mars] where there there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe.

Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space.

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.

The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth; yet we can pray that all are safely home.

Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space.

In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to talk of a solid ... drawn into a fourth, fifth, sixth, or further dimension.

It appears that the solution of the problem of time and space is reserved to philosophers who, like Leibniz, are mathematicians, or to mathematicians who, like Einstein, are philosophers.

There are infinite worlds both like and unlike this world of ours. For the atoms being infinite in number... are borne on far out into space.

NASA scientists announced the discovery of 50 new planets, among them what they're calling Super Earth. It's indistinguishable from regular earth until it removes its glasses.

Come on, Rory! It isn't rocket science, it's just quantum physics! -The Doctor (Matt Smith)

Were it not for gravity one man might hurl another by a puff of his breath into the depths of space, beyond recall for all eternity.

It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there.

I was always attracted to science fiction movies