Quotes About Space

The right brain is better than the left in perceiving space and making judgments as to balance, harmony, and the composition of gestalts, from which we make aesthetic distinctions between ugly and beautiful.

As science turns toward the realm of the Spirit to understand the physical universe, Space, Matter, Time are more prone to induce reverence than arrogance among scientists, who are sounding more like Isaiah in the temple than Isaac Newton under the apple tree.

In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.

And Koko's behavior has been abnormal since we moved in. He's always talking to himself and staring into space.' 'He's talking to ghosts,' Roger said with a straight face.

She gazed into space, afflicted by sudden deafness, a common disorder in felines.

The universe is not a rigid and immutable edifice where independent matter is housed in independent space and time; it is on the contrary an amorphous continuum, without any fixed architecture, plastic and variable, constantly subject to change and distortion.

Fabric," she volunteered, kicking the large box ruefully. "Occupational hazard, I'm afraid." "For a client or 'just because'?" "Both," she admitted. "It always starts as an order for a client, then next thing I know, I've added two bolts of 'just because.' Frankly, it's a good thing I don't live in a bigger space, or Lord only knows.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion.

A nomadic society cannot experience enclosed space.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.

The Divine is constantly waiting at your doorstep to move in if only you allow the necessary space.

In this life, your so-called ordinary life, you must be rooted; and in your inner space, in the spiritual life, you must be weightless and flying and flowing, floating.

The smiles of ancient soulsThat bless this, Our space to live and learnAnd urge us on to shine again…

None of us, I think, in the mid-'70s … would have thought we'd be devoting so much mental space now to confront religion. We thought that matter had long been closed. — Ian McEwan

A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained.

There was something heartbreakingly beautiful about the lights of distant ships, I thought. It was something that touched both on human achievement and the vastness against which those achievements seemed so frail. It was the same thing whether the lights belonged to a caravel battling the swell on a stormy horizon or a diamond-hulled starship which had just sliced its way through interstellar space.

Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that. ~Understanding Space & Time

So much for the tolerant acceptance of the other. We're forging out into deep space – who knows what we'll meet out there? If we can't even accept a robot and some talking elephants, what good are we going to be when we meet something really strange?

result: every description of events in space involves the use of a rigid body to which such events have to be referred. The resulting relationship takes for granted that the laws of Euclidean geometry hold for 'distances', the 'distance' being represented physically by means of the convention of two marks on a rigid body.

How did it come to pass that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity? The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up. Naturally I could go deeper into the problem than a child with normal abilities.

More careful reflection teaches us, however, that the special theory of relativity does not compel us to deny ether...To deny the ether is ultimately to assume that empty space has no physical qualities whatever.