Vastness Of Space Quotes

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  For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

  Carl Sagan

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Carl Sagan (1997). “Contact”, p.430, Simon and Schuster

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• Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Lonely, Dark, Cosmos

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

  Maria Mitchell

  Stars, Space, Trying

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• Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.

  Fred Rogers

  Differences, Space, Our World

  "Revisiting Fred Rogers’ 2002 Commencement Address". news.dartmouth.edu. March 27, 2018.

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• Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

  Jeb Bush

  Stars, Night, Space

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• There really is no such thing as race.

  Bill Nye

  Race, Pale Blue Dot

  "Bill Nye Tells Rutgers Grads: We Are ‘Much More Alike Than Different’" by Alexandra Svokos, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2015.

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• The more you learn about the real vastness of space and the real challenges of space travel, the more completely you appreciate the necessity of taking very good care of this world and being good stewards of it.

  Jon Spaihts

  Real, Space, Appreciate

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The Earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

  Jim Lovell

  Oasis, Space, Earth

  "Moon talkers: What astronauts talked about in space" by Jackie Hicken, www.deseretnews.com. July 20, 2016.

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• Up there, up there in the vastness of space, in the void that is sky, up there is an enemy known as isolation. It sits there in the stars waiting, waiting with the patience of eons, forever waiting in the Twilight Zone.

  Rod Serling

  Stars, Twilight, Space

  Rod Serling (1990). “The Twilight Zone: Complete Stories”, TV Books Incorporated

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• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.... Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Eight, Years, Two

  "Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1963.

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• When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Moon, Space, Floating

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• The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails.

  Gustav Holst

  Space, Understanding, Brain

  "Gustav Holst 1874-1934: A Centenary Documentation". Book by Michael Short, 1974.

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• Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

  Johannes Kepler

  Future, Air, Space

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  There really is no such thing as race. We all came from Africa. We are all of the same stardust. We are all going to live and die on the same planet, a Pale Blue Dot in the vastness of space. We have to work together.

  Bill Nye

  Race, Blue, Space

  "Commencement Speech: Bill Nye the Science Guy". my.umbc.edu. May 20, 2015.

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• God is discovered entirely through creation - the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of space and its countless stars. God is the mastermind behind all matter - every earth shattering scientific discovery and mystery that is yet to be unraveled was dreamed and enacted by God.

  Benjamin F Sullivan

  Stars, Powerful, Sunset

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• In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

  Carl Sagan

  Time, Space, Joy

  Carl Sagan, Tom Head (2006). “Conversations with Carl Sagan”, p.162, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Nature, Animal, Space

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.85, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize what you have back there on earth. The earth from here is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space.

  Jim Lovell

  Loneliness, Moon, Oasis

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• When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.

  Cat Stevens

  Religious, Space, Size

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