1,593 Quotes About Space

The Great Advancements in life seem to happen after Global 'Catastrophes'; forcing big Evolutionary changes.

The sky is deep then?' Dietrich said. 'Immeasurbly deep.

Intelligence reports and local folklore together perpetuated tales of his bloody adventures across the rim worlds and badlands of Terran space. It was his trademark and often over the last two decades, history proclaimed in large bloody letters that ‘Kilroy woz ‘ere.

Insanity allows you to pass through infinity.

With a fixed amount of matter and energy in the universe, everything is a zero-sum game on some level.

imagine you are an astronaut alone in space. no planets in view. no spacecraft. no distant stars. no source of light. imagine the latent terror, the quiet of space, the strange sensation of floating, the unspeakable dark between wealth of stars.

...she was struck suddenly that he wasn’t unfathomable at all. They were both made of the same star stuff. The same primordial fires that had coalesced to form their respective planets had been so close, on a grand cosmic scale. A near-infinite universe, and they were practically next-door neighbors. Looking into his eyes was like looking into ten billion years of history, like she could see the particles and rocks and gasses coalesce over eons, until somehow, impossibly, here they both were.

By asking how life came to be, we are implicitly asking why we are here, whether life exists on other planets, and what it means to be alive.

I let David fill our table up with conversation, his words like cartoon bubbles taking up the space I can’t seem to fill. Which is a long way of saying if he wants to talk prime numbers, so be it.