Space Quotes

"Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well."

Muhammad Iqbal

"Trees bear fruits only to be eaten by others; the fields grow grains, but they are consumed by the world. In such giving, there is little space for selfishness."

Munshi Premchand

"We need to explore our own deserts and land, which need to be healed and managed on the planet itself. We need to explore deep within more than without."

Sonam Wangchuk

"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth."

Norman Cousins

"You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb."

Jim Lovell

"The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine."

James Irwin

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

John Glenn

"I could have gone on flying through space forever."

Yuri Gagarin

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."

Fred Hoyle

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

Carl Sagan

"Space is the breath of art."

Frank Lloyd Wright

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."

Anaïs Nin

"Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again."

Joseph Campbell

"Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy."

Jonathan Sacks

"Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger."

Allen Klein

"Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus."

Johannes Kepler

"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

Nicolaus Copernicus

"Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock."

Anaxagoras

"With the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe."

Edwin Powell Hubble

"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

"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

William Blake

"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller."

John Milton

"You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars."

Thomas Traherne

"I always knew I'd go to space."

Mae Jemison

"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program."

Larry Niven