#space

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#closed-mindedness #discovery #humanity #ignorance #mankind

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#love #silence #space #love

Whatever the reason we first mustered the _Apollo_ program, however mired it was in Cold War nationalism and the instruments of death, the inescapable recognition of the unity and fragility of the Earth is its clear and luminous dividend, the unexpected final gift of _Apollo_. What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#earth #exploration #space-travel #death

Please don’t carve me another heart—‘tis easier to photosynthesize than to love ↗

— S.D. Foster

#subsidence #love

The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each is strong where the other is weak. This is a marriage made in heaven - but one that has been surprisingly difficult to consummate. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#russia #space-exploration #marriage

Doesn’t he look just like a ring wraith?” she said thoughtfully. “Are you kidding?” replied Cathy, “I most certainly won't be carol singing at your door this Christmas if you've got one of those ugly things hanging on it!” “No, from Lord of the Rings,” said Sue impatiently. “I'm sorry,” snorted Cathy, “I don't watch pornographic material." “Have you never read a book?!” Sue snapped. “It's about a small man who travels through dangerous lands to drop a ring into a volcano, it's a classic.” “Does sound like a small man,” she replied, “can't even face his marriage problems full on. ↗

— Paul Baxter

#gravity #humour #politics #science-fiction #space

On a visit to the space program, President Kennedy asked me about the satellite. I told him that it would be more important than sending a man into space. “Why?” he asked. “Because,” I said, “this satellite will send ideas into space, and ideas last longer than men. ↗

— Newton N. Minnow

#newton-minow #newton-n-minow #president-kennedy #satellite #space

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#believe #bigger #decrease #i #i believe

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#aviation #been #captivating #especially #particular

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong? ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#anything #astronomers #closest #discovered #empty