1,593 Quotes About Space

Once a photograph of the Earth, taken from the outside, is available... a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.

I sailed upon oceans, and I thought no challenge could be greater, and now men sail the void between stars. Oh, how I remember them. The constellations burning so bright at night. How could I ever have known? God's creation has a majesty which lays men bare at his feet.

You wouldn't want to make a universe angry. I bet an angry universe would look at you with eyes like that.

Standard procedure; the usual high volume of paperwork required to even sneeze on another planet.

Doesn’t it make you melancholy—looking at the stars?

Just think. We’re whizzing through the universe.

Sometimes, I imagine that the universe is like an unmoved, round bucket! The water inside is like the space all around; the space is moving as the water in the bucket. The spinning planets are like the dipped and moving mug and the sun is like the accidentally fallen bug in the middle of the bucket!

There are many universes, perhaps an infinite number; that each contains, and is contained within every other; and that all of them sing together like voices in a choir. It is a beautiful thing - a song of infinite harmony.

In the space of less than a year, mercury poisoning took me from being sponsored for an exceptional ability green card by Dartmouth College to being shown the door.