- Christopher
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space Quotes
Space means something different at every scale.
These space quotes cover a surprising range — screenwriters complaining about crowded cafe tables, a musician resisting being boxed into one sonic style, and an old joke about the outer-space program's tax-dollar value. For more on the physical world, see our Earth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do not become an astronaut because we fear not only the risk of space, but we fear the risk of failure along the way more than we want to put in the work to make it happen - and it is easier not to try.
- Dangerous
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress often covers the exposed crotch of our human spaceflight program with the figleaf of science when it's an obvious lie to justify the pumping of billions of dollars into the belly of an ever-voracious aerospace industrial complex. And yes, of course space is dangerous.
- Descriptive
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- Nov 07, 2020
The exploration of space: Be it by humans or robots, based on the best choice for the mission and the most efficient means to return the data and science sought. Most of the time, this will mean we send robots due to cost and danger. But sometimes, we will need the irreplaceable judgment and descriptive abilities of a person on the spot.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Moon! Mars! Asteroids! Rockets! Helium 3! Space solar power! Space tourism! We go through fads, swarm around the hero de jour, and spend far too much time trashing the other guy's ideas in favor of our own.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health, from wonder to wealth, the environment, and the very act of living, space is the future.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once a company develops out of its consumer base, you will often see a well-funded multinational company come in and take over that space. The black-owned company either stays a niche company or just disappears. This is something we don't want to happen.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diamond, for all its great beauty, is not nearly as interesting as the hexagonal plane of graphite. It is not nearly as interesting because we live in a three-dimensional space, and in diamond, each atom is surrounded in all three directions in space by a full coordination.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able to kind of articulate how you want the space to interact with the viewer.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.
- Religion
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- Nov 07, 2020
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct.
- Nov 07, 2020
When you do something in the moment, it may just be for that stage, that audience, that head space that you're in.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to turn over rocks and find bugs, and give them some space to do that. Take your child fishing. Take your child on hikes.
- All-Out
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- Nov 07, 2020