Space Quotes - Page 5

• Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Keys, Achievement, Roles

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

  James Jeans

  Stars, Science, Three

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• I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Mars, Buzz

  "Cosmic Currency: PayPal and SETI Developing Space Cash System". www.space.com. June 27, 2013.

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• Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Mean, Age

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Moon, Men

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Men, Feet

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

  Roseanne Barr

  Believe, Trying, Size

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• By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Atoms, World, Universe

  "Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works".

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• And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets.

  Sun Ra

  Chicago, Outer Space, Planets

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• If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Russia, Railroads, Workers

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• The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

  John Updike

  Religion, Stories, Literature

  John Updike (2009). “More Matter: Essays and Criticism”, p.185, Random House

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• Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

  Carl Sagan

  Running, Responsibility, Impact

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space".

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• O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Kings, Science

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [263]

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• Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

  Ray Bradbury

  Forever, Want, Live Forever

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.

  John Glenn

  Beautiful, Sunset, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember growing up thinking that astronauts and their job was the coolest thing you could possibly do... But I absolutely couldn't identify with the people who were astronauts. I thought they were movie stars.

  David M. Brown

  Jobs, Stars, Growing Up

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• Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

  John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

  Wind, Blue, Eagles

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• Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Men, Years, Civilization

  Star Trek: The Next Generation (television series). This third mission statement was first used in the episode "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987). See Killian 1; Roddenberry 2; Roddenberry 3

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world? This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature.

  Albertus Magnus

  Inspirational, Nature, Science

  "Discovering the cosmos". Book by R.C. Bless, p. 686, 1996.

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• Height, width, and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one plane to form the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to protect myself from the infinity of space.

  Max Beckmann

  Infinity, Depth, Three

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.302, University of Chicago Press

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

  El Lissitzky

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Race, Years

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

  Alan Shepard

  Government, Safety, Feelings

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• Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Moon, Space Flight

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