Space Quotes

Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.

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

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.

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

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.

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

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, 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!

You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft.

There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.