Space Quotes - Page 4

• After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

  William S. Burroughs

  Funny, Hilarious, Witty

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.125, Arcade Publishing

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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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• The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.

  Willem de Kooning

  Artist, Ideas, Matter

  Willem De Kooning, John Elderfield, Lauren Mahony (2011). “De Kooning: A Retrospective”, p.13, The Museum of Modern Art

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

  Gene Cernan

  Silence, Sound, Absence

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• You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Appreciate, Wish, Quiet

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• If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

  Freeman Dyson

  Fun, Adventure, Events

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

  James Smith McDonnell

  War, Future, Creativity

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• The stars begin to fade like guttering candles and are snuffed out one by one. Out in the depths of space the great celestial cities, the galaxies cluttered with the memorabilia of ages, are gradually dying. Tens of billions of years pass in the growing darkness ... of a universe condemned to become a galactic graveyard.

  Edward Robert Harrison

  Stars, Years, Cities

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• Why are we now going into space? Well, why did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Past, Journey, Mountain

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• In Hilbert space no one can hear you scream.

  Yakir Aharonov

  Scream, Taglines, Science Fiction Movie

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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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• Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Believe, Mean

  "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, vol.1". Book by Douglas Adams, 2009.

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• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

  Eric Hoffer

  God, Stars, Airplane

  www.nytimes.com. July 21, 1969.

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• Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

  Hermann Minkowski

  Independent, Reality, Two

  Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Albert Einstein, Hermann Minkowski, Hermann Weyl, Arnold Sommerfeld (1952). “The Principle of Relativity: A Collection of Original Memoirs on the Special and General Theory of Relativity”, p.75, Courier Corporation

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• A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

  William Shatner

  Accomplishment, Joy, Today

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• Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Clouds, Years

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

  Yuri Gagarin

  Beautiful, Earth, Saws

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• Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Keys, Achievement, Roles

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.

  Alexey Leonov

  Believe, Earth, Saws

  "How Camera Drones are Changing Our World (and us)" by Claudine Chicheportiche, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 20, 2016.

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• We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Apollo, Exploration

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Responsibility, Men, Mind

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• Space is the stature of God.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Star Gazing, Stature

  Joseph Joubert (1928). “Pensées and letters of Joseph Joubert”

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