The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing out the window at Earth, that the actual legacy of humanity's attempts to step into space will be a better understanding of our current planet and how to take care of it.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space.
Copy Quote View & ShareTime and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
Copy Quote View & SharePersonality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe're all humans living on this tiny little rock, floating through space at, like, thousands of miles an hour. We should all just get along.
Copy Quote View & ShareAnd as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.
Copy Quote View & ShareLiving in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space.
Copy Quote View & ShareI learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.
Copy Quote View & ShareCompetitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou don't see any borders between countries from space. That's man-made, and one experiences it only when you return to Earth.
Copy Quote View & ShareScience sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.
Copy Quote View & ShareIf your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
Copy Quote View & ShareNothing puzzles me more than the time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less.
Copy Quote View & ShareTime and space always change, but there is something which is eternal and changeless. For example, the world and time, past or future, nothing exists for us in sleep. But we exist. Let us try to find out that which is changeless and which always exists.
Copy Quote View & ShareMake an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it.
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