Space Quotes

"Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

"Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

"Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other."

Jules Verne

"We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn't come with it."

R. Buckminster Fuller

"We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continents are interconnected. That is our home."

David Suzuki

"When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty."

John Muir

"Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!"

John Muir

"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery."

Thomas Merton

"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air."

Wilbur Wright

"In a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life."

Lucretius

"Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world."

Blaise Pascal

"The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind."

Muhammad Iqbal

"Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space."

Robert Frost

"The heart looks into space to be away from earth."

Richard Jefferies

"Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from."

Eric Hoffer

"The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."

Robert A. Heinlein

"We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon."

Ray Bradbury

"I'm never going to go to Mars, but I've helped inspire, thank goodness, the people who built the rockets and sent our photographic equipment off to Mars."

Ray Bradbury

"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program – your tax-dollar will go further."

Wernher von Braun

"Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time."

Guglielmo Marconi

"There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened."

Charles Baudelaire

"Space is to place as eternity is to time."

Joseph Joubert

"Love is space and time measured by the heart."

Marcel Proust

"Perhaps the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here."

Arthur C. Clarke