Space Quotes Ipsum

Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. a companion with whom i was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,*though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,*that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed. a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. after 25 shipboard years, such a ship could even reach the great andromeda galaxy - although over 2 million years would have passed on the earth. al is on the surface. all attempts at artificial aviation are not only dangerous to life but doomed to failure from an engineering standpoint. all kinds of danger wait for him on the earth... all right. all the women in my life were nurses, hairdressers, or secretaries, and that's why i thought my father would not support me in being a pilot. 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 how insignificant we really all are, but then how fortunate we are to have this body and to be able to enjoy loving here amongst the beauty of the earth itself. and makes men mad. and the enthusiastic support of its people. and then, the earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless saharas which separate planet from planet, and sun from sun. and we more like your romantic soul. and when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that mankind played an active and not merely a passive role*that we were the discoverers, not the discovered. and wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. another explorer with a famous first*edmund hillary, first to climb mount everest*said it would have been, "better if he had said something natural like, 'jesus, here we are!'" the july 1969 edition of esquire magazine even had as its cover story famous writers discussing what the first words should be. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. 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. apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. apollo 16 is gonna change your image...i'm sure glad they got ol' brer rabbit here, back in the briar patch where he belongs..

Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. this may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. a manuscript i wrote on january 14, 1918... a nation that loses its forward thrust is in danger, and one of the most effective ways to retain that thrust is to keep exploring possibilities. 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... a sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. adventure in the fact, the hypothesis in the idea, here is the two big processes of discovery. after some days these things became more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun. all human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. all this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one days in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool and laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. along the margin of a bay: 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 as we know now, and as i pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the space shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying american dollar bills as has ever been devised by man. and darkness was upon the face of the deep... and different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. and the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space. and we are mistreating it. and, as we leave the moon at taurus- littrow, we leave as we came and, god willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. apollo soyuz arecibo message.

A popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed to be obtained... all this world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and a day will come, one days in the unending succession of days, when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon this earth as one stands upon a footstool and laugh and reach out their hands amidst the stars. and darkness was upon the face of the deep... and deposited in a friend's safe....