1,593 Quotes About Space

  • Author John Updike
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    The six o’clock news is all about space, all about emptiness: some bald men plays with little toys to show the docking and undocking maneuvers, and then a panel talks about the significance of this for the next five hundred years. They keep mentioning Columbus but as far as Rabbit can see it’s the exact opposite: Columbus flew blind and hit something, these guys see exactly where they’re aiming and it’s a big round nothing.

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  • Author Samantha Cristoforetti
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    We did not evolve to go to space, so when it comes to space travel, we are all disabled," says ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. "What brings us from being disabled to go to space to being able to go to space is just technology.

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  • Author Blake Crouch
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    Looking into space from Antarctica feels like looking into space from space. On a night like this--no wind, no weather, no moon--the smear of the Milky Way looks more like a celestial fire, brimming with colors you'd never see from anyplace else on Earth.

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  • Author M.N. Arzu
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    I used to hunt for shooting stars. To know they had traveled billions of miles, just to burn and be over in a matter of seconds… that was what mattered to me, really. Not the brightness or the wishes… Just, you know? To see the end of such well-travelled nomads. I didn't want them to die alone.

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