Space Quotes Ipsum

'tis likely enough that there may be means invented of journeying to the moon; and how happy they shall be that are first successful in this attempt. a mind of no mean order would seem to have presided over the system we see*a mind certainly of considerably more comprehensiveness than that which presides over the various department of our own public works. a planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. about every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever. after further development these machines will be capable of attaining such velocities that they - left undisturbed in the void of the ether space - will not fall back to earth; furthermore, they will even be able to leave the zone of terrestrial attraction. all all i see multiplied as high as i can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. all civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. all of humanity went to the moon with the apollo missions. an outer-space raspberry to a decade of american pretensions that the american way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our national superiority. and so it was in august of '69 before the fight when i made this bet: that i would say something that they would know that the united states government wasn't big brother telling us what to say. and that within a century after his death the telescope was invented, and that prediction verified, by galileo,*i am not without hope that we may, even here and now, obtain some accurate information concerning that other world which the instinct of mankind has so long predicted. and then it struck me that we are all children of our earth. and you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, as if you've been born again. anyone who sits on top of the largest hydrogen-oxygen fueled system in the world; knowing they're going to light the bottom*and doesn't get a little worried*does not fully understand the situation. apollo 12, houston..

A mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. a new space race has begun, and most americans are not even aware of it. a single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence... an outer-space raspberry to a decade of american pretensions that the american way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our national superiority. anyway, the reply was:.

And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the earth and all the living things it supports. this may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. a good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means we cannot conjecture... adventure in the fact, the hypothesis in the idea, here is the two big processes of discovery. all civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming, membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. an observer situated in a nebula and moving with the nebula will observe the same properties of the universe as any other similarly situated observer at any time. and for 50 years, people have been wrong... and i was right, nobody remembers what the second person said anyhow. and makes its circuit to the other; and makes men mad. and so the debate started. and twinkle on the milky way, and we more like your romantic soul. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough..