Space Quotes Ipsum

Astronomy is written for astronomers. 'tis not too late to seek a newer world... a feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. a good rule for rocket experimenters to follow is this: always assume that it will explode. a man is the best computer available to place in a spacecraft... a spacecraft is a metaphor of national inspiration: majestic, technologically advanced, produced at dear cost and entrusted with precious cargo, rising above the constraints of the earth. 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. 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 about two minutes, then it's too late really, because if you were to lift off after two minutes after the normal landing, mike collins is going around and around and he's too far ahead for you to catch up to him in a reasonable time, and he's going to have to do some other maneuvers so that you can catch up with him. all civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct. 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 analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case. 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. 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 different tribes of men, kinds of wild beasts. and even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero*the temperature of interplanetary space. and eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. and i felt that that was a fairly critical time, so it surprised me that during that time, neil chose to make the call to houston tranquility base that the eagle has landed. and if the idea is accepted that the world's resources are fixed, then each person is ultimately the enemy of every other person, and each race or nation is the enemy of every other race or nation. and it's the saddest moment of my life. 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 so the debate started. 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 the earth was without form and void. and we are mistreating it. and we shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them. and wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. and without my expiating on this theme, it should be clear that putting little white dots on a blue-black surface is not enough. arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service..

There is the possibility of an industrial bonanza. a single life time, even though entirely devoted to research, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... a tear-drop of green. a time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of homer is turned upon our age. after i give lectures*on almost any subject*i am often asked, "do you believe in ufos?". air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. and a landing on mars will follow and i expect to be around in see it. and darkness was upon the face of the deep... and i watched the extent of one ocean touch the shores of separate continents. and if the idea is accepted that the world's resources are fixed, then each person is ultimately the enemy of every other person, and each race or nation is the enemy of every other race or nation. and it required... 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. 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. armstrong didn't realize the 'a' was not heard until after he got back to earth..

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. a feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. a manuscript i wrote on january 14, 1918... a sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out. 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 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. 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 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 god saw that it was good." and from the crew of apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, and a merry christmas. and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to. 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 shall only find out what they are if we go out and look for them..