1,593 Quotes About Space

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.

What we call 'time' isn't chronological but spatial; what we call 'death' is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

She was born of space. And starlight. But she bled wrath. And vengeance.."[From Current Work In Progress]

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

Tu te rends compte, des gens qui vivent sur la Lune ? Bon Dieu ! à quinze mètres au-dessus de nos têtes, il fait cent soixante dix degrés en dessous de zéro quand tu te trouves à l’ombre, dans un vide absolu, assez pour que l’eau de ton corps subisse une sublimation avant que tu n’aies le temps de geler sur place. Nous n’avons rien à faire ici, chef, et toute la beauté de la chose réside là.

We know not to fear death. Because even in death, there is life. Death is not the black night, but its white moon. The honeyed egg of rebirth.

50 years after walking on the Moon, we now understand Space development to be toxic to over 7 billion people on planet Earth.