- Health
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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
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Demonstrating
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- Nov 07, 2020
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
- NASA
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for them - NEOs: near Earth objects. And our biggest goal is to try to catalogue them, so we know in advance if one is going to put us at risk.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020