Space Quotes Ipsum

Half a world to the left, half a world to the right, i can see it all. a planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... 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. an analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. and, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. arecibo message.

'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. after some days these things became more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun. amid this vast and overwhelming space and in these boundless solar archipelagoes, how small is our own sphere, and the earth, what a grain of sand! and different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. and it's the saddest moment of my life. and thanks for putting me on relay, houston. and the one thing i know about nature is it hates to waste anything. 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. any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic..

All human exploration's bottom line is about preserving our species over the long haul. also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue to be so wherever he went, which is false. 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 this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum and commodities for traffic. and you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. armstong was an amazing test pilot and aerospace engineer, but he had been awake for 24 hours at the time of the moonwalk..