#space

Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of ‘competition’…as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn’t have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do – knowing no better, having no choice. ↗

— Greg Egan

#sci-fi #science #science-fiction #space-exploration #imagination

The stars up there at night are closer than you think. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#distance #existence #infinity #inspiration #space

I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#happiness #space #life

He couldn't take his eye off that dragon There was something odd about the swaying of his tail ...he watched his curved and voluptuous reptilian legs move with grace... ...its stare was docile and...loving... He wanted that creature He wanted him all to himself He slapped his forehead, "Get ahold of yourself, George. It's a dragon!" He couldn't hold himself He followed the dragon-shifter into its cave From Lonely George and the Dragon God, a standalone story deriving from the universe built in Dragons and Cicadas. ↗

— L'Poni Baldwin

#dragons-and-cicadas #romance #romance-love #space-dragons #love

Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#days #four #here #leave #may

But investment in space stimulates society, it stimulates it economically, it stimulates it intellectually, and it gives us all passion. ↗

— Bill Nye

#gives #intellectually #investment #passion #society

My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#basketball #create #get #how #maneuver

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#group #planets #separate #space #stars

When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?' ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#always #bit #goal #goalkeeper #him

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#folk #i #intimacy #make #music