Interstellar Quotes - Page 2

• Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

  James Joyce

  Zero, Space, Dawn

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.759, Delphi Classics

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• The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere.

  Isaac Asimov

  Order, Games, Play

  Isaac Asimov (1976). “The planet that wasn't”, Doubleday Books

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• A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.

  Carl Sagan

  Moon, Space, Civilization

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• The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

  Bernard M. Oliver

  Moving, Light, Matter

  Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”

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• You don't buy into huge car chases or sensates or interstellar warfare, but you can buy into a loving relationship or a father-son relationship, and you can buy into the small humor. If you want to make your fiction universal, go small. That's the best way to do it.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Father, Son, Car

  Source: collider.com

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• I had a mad impulse to throw you down on the lunar surface and commit interstellar perversion with you.

  Woody Allen

  Mad, Manhattan, Surface

  "Fictional character: Isaac Davis". Manhattan, www.imdb.com. 1979.

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• The vast interplanetary and vast interstellar regions will no longer be regarded as waste places in the universe. We shall find them to be already full of this wonderful medium; so full that no human power can remove it from the smallest portion of space or produce the slightest flaw in its infinite continuity.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Space, Waste, Flaws

  James Clerk Maxwell (1998). “Escritos científicos”, p.79, Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press

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• So far, we have been able to study only one evolving system and we cannot wait for interstellar flight to provide us with a second. If we want to discover generalizations about evolving systems, we will have to look at artificial ones.

  John Maynard Smith

  Waiting, Want, Able

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• Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Distance, People, Waste

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• Even if that is so, there will remain A word wakened by lips that perish, A tireless messenger who runs and runs Through interstellar fields, through the revolving galaxies, And calls out, protests, screams.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Running, Messengers, Fields

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Meaning”

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• When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Impact, Volcanoes, Rays

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

  Larry Niven

  Travel, Home, Night

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• It is a sobering thought that Gomer Pyle and the Beverly Hillbillies may be among our chief interstellar emissaries.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Modern Life, May, Chiefs

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• It is a truism that the structure of a society is basically determined by its technology. Not in an absolute sense-there may be totally different cultures using identical tools-but the tools settle the possibilities; you can't have interstellar trade without spaceships. A race limited to a single planet, possessing a high knowledge of mechanics but with its basic machines of industry and war requiring a large capital investment, will inevitably tend toward collectivism under one name or another. Free enterprise needs elbow room.

  Poul Anderson

  War, Technology, Names

  Poul Anderson (2011). “Trader to the Stars: Polesotechnic League”, p.26, Hachette UK

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• One doesn't just wander unvetted into someone else's epic interstellar future history.

  Edward M. Lerner

  Epic, Wander

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The sun you know the heart of our solar system makes noise. Even interstellar phenomena like black holes. You know people have studied them and a black hole can emit sound in like the range of 20,000 octaves below B flat.

  DJ Spooky

  Heart, People, Black

  Source: bigthink.com

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