Space Quotes Ipsum

He'd dress up in a corduroy jacket, a turtleneck sweater, and something like a mop for a wig... there is the possibility of an industrial bonanza. this may seem wild, and visionary; all i maintain is that it is not unscientific. 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 single life time, even though entirely devoted to research, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... a very fit consideration, and matter of reflection, for those kings and princes who sacrifice the lives of so many people, only to flatter their ambition in being masters of some pitiful corner of this small spot. 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. after some days these things became more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun. air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. all of a sudden, it's a place where people can die... 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. all this enlarges the human horizon... 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. 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. 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! 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 makes men mad. and so this knowledge will be unfolded through long successive ages. and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. and we have been that way for thousands of years. and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of apollo. apollo 12, houston. 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. apollo 8 has 5,600,000 parts and 1.5 million systems, subsystems and assemblies. apollo soyuz arecibo message.