Space, the vast expanse beyond our planet, is a fascinating realm of infinite mysteries and celestial bodies.
It’s not only about exploration and discovery, but also plays a key role in our daily lives – from weather forecasting and satellite television to GPS services.
Understanding space brings us closer to unraveling the universe’s origins and our own existence, while also paving the way for future technological advancements.
1. “Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space. Don’t be afraid of the challenges, the missteps, and the setbacks along the way. What matters is that you keep going.” – Kendra Scott
2. “It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes – and each of these will have its own complement of planets.” – Seth Shostak
3. “What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.” – Norman Cousins
4. “I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.” – Elon Musk
5. “Space is the breath of art.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
6. “Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.” – Carl Sagan
7. “We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that’s where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it’s instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd.” – Janna Levin
8. “Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.” – Democritus
9. “To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.” – Adlai Stevenson II
10. “The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we’re creating now, we’re pollinating the universe.” – Neil Young
11. “Growing up in the ’60s and early ’70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I always loved planes. I always loved rockets and I always loved space travel.” – Stewart O’Nan
12. “We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.” – Buzz Aldrin
13. “As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon – it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.” – Naveen Jain
14. “As an astronaut, especially during launch, half of the risk of a six-month flight is in the first nine minutes.” – Chris Hadfield
15. “I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.” – John F. Kennedy
16. “The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them.” – Isaac Newton
17. “I had always been interested in the space program, and I didn’t know if I could be an astronaut like I’d dreamt about when I was a little kid – to me it sounded kind of silly, someone grow up to be an astronaut – but, when I was in my 20s, I thought maybe I can get a job with NASA or a contractor, do something with the space program.” – Michael J. Massimino
18. “We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.” – Adlai Stevenson I
19. “Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.” – Nathan Myhrvold
20. “The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
21. “All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to risk my life for the mission.” – John M. Grunsfeld
22. “In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.” – Elon Musk
23. “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.” – Neil Armstrong
24. “The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
25. “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.” – Neil Armstrong
26. “I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.” – E. B. White
27. “Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.” – Arthur C. Clarke
28. “Well, I don’t think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.” – Ron Paul
29. “To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it’s going to be heartbreaking.” – Bill Nye
30. “When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.” – Michelle Obama
31. “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.” – Larry Niven
32. “I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.” – David Mackay
33. “Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.” – Jonathan Sacks
34. “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.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
35. “For NASA, space is still a high priority.” – Dan Quayle
36. “Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China’s millions of women by going into space.” – Liu Yang
37. “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
38. “The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.” – Carl Sandburg
39. “Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.” – Peter Diamandis
40. “Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.” – Anais Nin
41. “I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.” – Pat Buckley
42. “Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 – that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.” – Mae Jemison
43. “Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.” – William S. Burroughs
44. “Modern science says: ‘The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.’ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.” – Nikola Tesla
45. “So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion – because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there’s not very much you can do.” – Sally Ride
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