Space Quotes

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."

Neil Armstrong

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."

Carl Sagan

"The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

"When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system."

Kalpana Chawla

"You don't see any borders between countries from space. That's man-made, and one experiences it only when you return to Earth."

Sunita Williams

"The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

"I see Earth! It is so beautiful!"

Yuri Gagarin

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space."

Douglas Adams

"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter."

Sally Ride

"The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe."

Mae Jemison

"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."

Stephen Hawking

"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small."

Neil Armstrong

"There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew."

Marshall McLuhan

"Hey sky, take off your hat, I'm on my way!"

Valentina Tereshkova

"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."

Blaise Pascal

"Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!"

Lord Byron

"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."

Democritus

"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."

Arthur C. Clarke

"We shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!"

Jules Verne

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."

Carl Sandburg

"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet."

Jack London

"Whenever I gaze up at the moon, I feel like I'm on a time machine. I am back to that precious pinpoint of time, standing on the foreboding – yet beautiful – Sea of Tranquility."

Buzz Aldrin

"With so much conflict in the world, space exploration can be a beacon of hope."

Anne McClain

"The main goal of the International Space Station is to work on peaceful projects. In space, we're all people from Earth."

Sunita Williams

"The black holes of nature are the most perfect macroscopic objects there are in the universe: the only elements in their construction are our concepts of space and time."

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar