Deep Space Quotes

• We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space.

  Richard Dawkins

  Technology, Space, Brain

  Richard Dawkins (1995). “River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Intelligent, Race, Space

  "Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak". Book by Clifford D. Simak, Introduction (p. ix), 1977.

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• All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

  John Masefield

  Stars, Sea, Sailing

  John Masefield, “Sea Fever”

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• The more things change, the more they stay different.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Change, Different, Grey

  Melissa de la Cruz (2009). “Girl Stays in the Picture”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Union Rule 26: Every employee must win 'Worker of the Week' at least once, regardless of gross incompetence, obesity or rank odor.

  Homer

  Winning, Odor, Unions

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• The more things change, the more they stay the same.

  Alphonse Karr

  Change, Birthday, More The Merrier

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• Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge physicists offer speculation of deep space wormholes and the use of zero point energy. For now, we could not do any better than to study MAJIC EYES ONLY and read the accounts of UFO crash retrievals and ponder what a reality that includes diverse intelligent life outside of our planet might mean for us and future generations.

  Jim Marrs

  Zero, Mean, Eye

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• The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Believe, Ambition, Moon

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• A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Opportunity, Space, Long

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• One of the major problems with long-term deep space human flight is the requirement for radiation shielding.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Long, Radiation

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I'm working on 'Buffy: Deep Space Nine'. It will be dark and badly received.

  Joss Whedon

  Dark, Space, Nine

  Entertainment Weekly Angel TV Preview, September 12, 2003.

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• The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.

  R. S. Thomas

  Stars, Space, Mind

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• In the deep space of the sea I have found my moon

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Moon, Sea, Space

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• And this is a kiss like none before, a kiss that could overcome the dark of deep space night. It's a falling star, flame, ice. It's pure as water from a snow-fed mountain spring. This is what you dream a kiss to be. To have a kiss just like this each and every day! How satisfying life would be.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Stars, Spring

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• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  Olivia Thirlby

  Stars, Thinking, Space

  "Olivia Thirlby Talks Loving Her 'Flawed' Character In ‘Nobody Walks,’ More ‘Dredd’ & Her 5 Favorite Performances" by Jen Vineyard, www.indiewire.com. October 18, 2012.

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• One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space in the same painting. You have a kind of deep space, and then you have something like right up on the surface.

  Mary Heilmann

  Numbers, Space, Chinese

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• By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it.

  Barack Obama

  Future, Believe, Journey

  "What's In The Stars For NASA?". "Science Friday", www.npr.org. April 16, 2010.

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• The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature of our part of the Universe, as well as the basic rules of physics and chemistry, have a warning look about them, like barriers designed to isolate intelligent life. This means that for us, unlike the situation for humble microorganisms, deep-space travel is probably a stark impossibility.

  Fred Hoyle

  Future, Humble, Mean

  Fred Hoyle (1983). “The Intelligent Universe”

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• You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.

  Douglas Adams

  Mother, Men, Space

  Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.80, Del Rey

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• When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Space, Names, Spheres

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• I cannot cause light; the most I can do is try to put myself in the path of its beam. It is possible, in deep space, to sail on solar wind. Light, be it particle or wave, has force: you can rig a giant sail and go. The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff

  Annie Dillard

  Space, Light, Wind

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.35, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• So, yes, the five years that we've been working on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has evidenced a real deepening of all the characters, not only mine.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Stars, Real, Character

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• In the Ridley Scott film 'The Martian' you can do that [virtually driving car]. I have lifted off in the space craft from the surface of Mars, walked in space and looked down into deep space and got terrified, with the headphones and the goggles.

  Martin Sorrell

  Space, Car, Goggles

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz, where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature, poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Fun, Play, Space

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over. It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species. Further than this, there should be no economic necessity of its doing so. By the time it was able to go into deep space, it must have arrived at an energy source which would not be based on planetary natural resources.

  Clifford D. Simak

  Taken, Intelligent, Race

  "Skirmish: The Great Short Fiction of Clifford D.Simak". Book by Clifford D. Simak. Introduction, p. 9, 1977.

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