Space Quotes

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• The view of the Earth from the Moon fascinated me -- a small disk, 240,000 miles away. . . . Raging nationalistic interests, famines, wars, pestilence, don't show from that distance.

  Frank Borman

  Distance, War, Moon

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• Space is not only high, it's low. It's a bottomless pit.

  Sun Ra

  Pits, Lows

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• Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Flow, Infinity, Becoming

  FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1953). “THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE”

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• The universe is wider than our views of it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Science, Views, Perception

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

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• Space is the breath of art.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Architecture, Breaths

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• Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

  Fred Hoyle

  Inspirational, Funny, Car

  1979 Quoted in the Observer,'Sayings of the Week', 9 Sep.

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• Every cubic inch of space is a miracle.

  Walt Whitman

  Miracle, Leaves Of Grass, Hanukkah

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.256, NYU Press

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• The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

  Galileo Galilei

  Inspirational, Funny, Summer

  "Sun of gOd: Discover the Self-Organizing Consciousness That Underlies Everything". Book by Gregory Sams (p. 78), May 1, 2009.

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• To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

  Stephen Hawking

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

  Foreword to "The Physics of Star Trek" by Lawrence Krauss, (p. xii), 2007.

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• To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, every inch of space is a miracle, every square yard of the surface of the earth is spread with the same, every cubic foot of the interior swarms with the same; every spear of grass-the frames, limbs, organs, of men and women, and all that concerns them, all these to me are unspeakably perfect miracles.

  Walt Whitman

  Dark, Men, Squares

  Walt Whitman (2004). “Whitman: The Mystic Poets”, p.96, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Space is to place as eternity is to time.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Eternity, Star Gazing

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• If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of time, space, or being. In that liberated state you can see fundamental truth and the phenomenal world simultaneously. That is called Buddha's world. That is the place where all sentient beings exist, so you can stand up there and see all beings, myriad beings. Then you know very clearly, through your own emotional and intellectual understanding, how all beings exist.

  Dainin Katagiri

  Emotional, Ideas, Understanding

  Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.75, Shambhala Publications

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• Time is said to have only one dimension, and space to have three dimensions. ... The mathematical quaternion partakes of both these elements; in technical language it may be said to be 'time plus space', or 'space plus time': and in this sense it has, or at least involves a reference to, four dimensions. And how the One of Time, of Space the Three, Might in the Chain of Symbols girdled be.

  William Rowan Hamilton

  Three, Elements, Four

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• According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

  Brian Greene

  Sky, Age, Realization

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.308, Vintage

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• The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.

  Timothy Findley

  Recognition, Space Between

  Timothy Findley (1986). “The wars”, Penguin Group Canada

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• Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

  William S. Burroughs

  Travel, Math, Science

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.85, Arcade Publishing

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• Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Happiness, Peace, Freedom

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• We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.

  Eileen Collins

  Believe, People, Looks

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• Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained.

  Max Beckmann

  Deities, Infinite, Surround

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.166, Penguin

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• Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Moving, Scarcity, May

  Edwin Way Teale (1976). “The American seasons”, Dodd Mead

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• What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

  John Updike

  Teacher, Appreciation, Art

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• A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.

  Albert Einstein

  Nature, Compassion, Animal

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.339, Princeton University Press

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  A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual

  Letter of 1950, as quoted in "The New York Times", March 29, 1972.

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