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  It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eye, Blue, Perspective

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Agency, Government

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• In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.

  Bridget Riley

  Opening Up, Way, Depth

  Bridget Riley (2009). “The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009”

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• I can really recommend a beautifully but sparsely furnished room with empty walls!

  Semir Zeki

  Wall, Rooms, Empty

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• My paintings should become objects into which one could float, as in water, so that one's mind is hung... suspended, and the emanation of the painting would penetrate into people's consciousness.

  Douglas Portway

  Water, People, Mind

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• When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Garden, Site, Whole

  Isamu Noguchi (1999). “The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• Circles create soothing space.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Circles, Soothing

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.238, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

  John Glenn

  Running, Names, People

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• Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

  Vanna Bonta

  Ignorance, Perspective, Focus

  "The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society". Book co-sponsored by The International Academy of Astronautics and The European Space Agency, February 2005.

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• There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?

  Isaac Asimov

  Moon, Escaping, Years

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• Each conquest of distance reveals greater distance.

  Martin E. Marty

  Distance, Conquest, Greater

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• Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.

  Tycho Brahe

  God, Teacher, Stars

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• Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Destiny, Survival, Generations

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• Failure is not an option!

  Gene Kranz

  Failure, Failure Is Not An Option

  "Gene Kranz, former flight director for NASA". CNN Chat Room, www.cnn.com. April 11, 2000.

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• The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.

  Wernher von Braun

  Years, Pay, Gains

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• So let us then try to climb the mountain, not by stepping on what is below us, but to pull us up at what is above us, for my part at the stars; amen.

  M. C. Escher

  Stars, Trying, Mountain

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• The heart of the problem is not so much how we see objects in depth, as how we see the constant layout of the world around us. Space, as such, empty space, is not visible, but surfaces are.

  James J. Gibson

  Heart, Depth, World

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• The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

  Larry Niven

  Insightful, Dinosaurs, Exploration

  "A Conversation With Arthur C. Clarke; An Author's Space Odyssey and His Stay at the Chelsea". www.nytimes.com. Ooctober 26, 1999.

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• To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dream, Space Flight, Cosmos

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• I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important...and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Moon, Men

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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• Pure, existential space was regularly winking at me, each time in a more impressive manner, and this sensation of total freedom attracted me so powerfully that I painted some monochrome surfaces just to 'see,' to 'see' with my own eyes what existential sensibility granted me: absolute freedom!

  Yves Klein

  Eye, Existential, Granted

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". Book by Yves Klein, ed. J & J. p.15, 1974.

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• The scenery was very beautiful. But I did not see The Great Wall [of China].

  Yang Liwei

  Beautiful, Wall, Earth

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• The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces right.

  Paula Rego

  Worry, Gaps, Form

  John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”

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• You leave space for the body, imagining the other part even though it isn't there.

  Henry Moore

  Body

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• Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, Distance, Past

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.71, eKitap Projesi

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