Space Quotes - Page 3

• A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

  Joseph Addison

  Ideas, Almighty, Raises

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• It is certainly a wonderful, a brain-staggering conception... that our own stellar universe may be but one of hundreds of thousands of similar universes... Familiarity with these mighty concepts most certainly does not breed contempt, does not dull our awe at the mightiness of the universe in which we play so small a part. It is very doubtful if any of those who are seriously studying the heavens ever lose their feeling of reverence for this supremely wonderful universe and for Whoever or Whatever must be behind it all.

  Heber Doust Curtis

  Play, Heaven, Feelings

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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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• 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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• The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

  Joseph Raffael

  Demand, Want, Information

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• To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account.

  Wade Guyton

  Taken, Architecture, Accounts

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• Spatial art does not begin with a poetic mood or idea, but with construction of one or more figures, with the harmonizing of several colors and tones, or with the devaluation of spatial relationships and so on.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Color, Ideas

  Paul Klee (1967). “Paul Klee, 1879-1940: A Retrospective Exhibition”

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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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• There must be an open space in the paintings - an entry space for the viewer, or even for me. Just white space where you can get into it.

  Norbert Bisky

  White, Painting, Entry

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• The hardest thing is to make this little space for yourself where you can think and not get inundated with other stuff coming in.

  Catherine Yass

  Thinking, Littles, Stuff

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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 was never one to paint space, I paint air.

  Fairfield Porter

  Air, Paint

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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 most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then finds it absolutely impossible that there be objects in this space or that processes occur during this time . . . the source of this kind of logic lies in excessive confidence in the so-called laws of thought.

  Ludwig Boltzmann

  Time, Philosophy, Lying

  "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" by S. Rajasekar, September 7, 2006.

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• The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sports, War, Distance

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• I think it's going to be great if people can buy a ticket to fly up and see black sky and the stars. I'd like to do it myself-but probably after it has flown a serious number of times first!

  Paul Allen

  Stars, Thinking, Sky

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• The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

  James Smith McDonnell

  War, Future, Creativity

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• I take space to be the central fact to man born in America. I spell it large because it comes large here. Large and without mercy.

  Charles Olson

  Men, America, Facts

  1947 Call Me Ishmael, section1.

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• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  Ira Glass

  Thinking, Long, Radio

  "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.

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• The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

  Gene Cernan

  Silence, Sound, Absence

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• Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Overcoming, Cost

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (2004). “The Aims Of Astronautics”, p.38, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

  Alexey Leonov

  Believe, Home, Light

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• I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!

  Wernher von Braun

  Moving, Waiting, Vision

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• Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

  William Wordsworth

  Stars, Flower, Shining

  1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

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• The space between the dish and the pitcher, that I paint also.

  Georges Braque

  Paint, Dishes, Pitcher

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