What we call ‘time’ isn’t chronological but spatial; what we call ‘death’ is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

What caused me to undertake the catalog was the nebula I discovered above the southern horn of Taurus on September 12, 1758, while observing the comet of that year. … This nebula had such a...

Love is a roundness, like a hole—a black hole. If what she wants is space, I’ll give her space—enough to fill an auditorium that has ample seating for a lecture by Stephen Hawking.

One of our visions for this next-generation technology is to have embedded devices in the consumer electronics space.

Everyone who’s been in space would, I’m sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there.

The laws of nature cannot be randomly reshuffled at the cusps [of an oscillating universe]. If the universe has already gone through many oscillations, many possible laws of gravity would have been so weak that,...

Did you know that the Russians sent dogs into space? My mother told me this when I was a boy. Nobody knew the effects of space on a body, you see, so they sent dogs...

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...

The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.

Someday, the people we know, are acquainted to become the people we knew. They leave. They leave to pursue the opportunities laid down in their paths and they leave on account of misunderstandings.Their absence causes...

We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those...

China’s space mission is solely based on peaceful purposes, … We are devoted to the peaceful use of space and are ready to extend out cooperation to other countries.

absolute time” — of a time independent of change. This absolute time can be measured by comparison with no motion; it has therefore neither a practical nor a scientific value; and no one is justified...

I am the Constellation of my own

So I was just thinking about how something happened today and it was quite insightful, humbling and puts things into perspective. If you look at anything, everything has it’s ‘story’ so to speak. For instance,...

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at...

I don’t have any stigma attached to my body. When I’m in my own private space, I have very little on.

When you have mountains in the distance or even hills, you have space.

Each place is the right place–the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)

[Patricia Ireland, President of the National Organization for Women, also on the ground at Kennedy Space Center, sighed when I asked her about the convergence of the two events.] It has the potential to diminish...

When you’re in the zone of your purpose with passion…time stands still.

I am Nom-O-Tron,’ said the machine, in a big, boomy voice, so loud that Astra was afraid her mum and dad or some other grown-ups would hear and come to see who was sneaking a...

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state … Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air...

For me Humanity > Country > Family > Friends > (Religion = Science). Sorry if I disappointed you, but this is what I was and I will follow my whole life.

Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of general relativity, [Eddington] allegedly replied: ‘Who’s the third?

Not everyone will understand this need for America to lead the world in space.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the...

The fact is, space technology can and does fail. And when you start using nuclear materials in increasing numbers, the odds of an accident increase.

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

Space,” it says, “is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s...

Okay, so either (a) I just teleported somewhere else entirely (b) they can fold space like no one’s business or (c) they are simply ignoring all the rules.

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Be open to ideas and thoughts you disagree with. It will unleash a debate in your mind and soul.

We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.

I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward deeper knowledge and understanding. Science, however, gives me the feeling of steady progress: I am...

Which came first—time or space?

If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could begin thinking about tomorrow. And if everybody thinks about tomorrow, then someday we can visit the sky together.

We’re working with Zero Gravity to get them to come to the Space Coast by providing an incentive package.

Everybody was hoping for something, talking about our new life to come and all that they hoped from it. Fresh air, whatever that’s supposed to mean. Real gravity, instead of the fake kind that broke...

We desperately need the space. It will be open to everyone. Facilities like the Kroc Center aren’t publicly owned and they’re fee-based.

[Asteroids are] the vermin of the skies.[Asteroids can block objects of interest on astronomical photographs.]

Space, as you can see, is a complete void, nothing but clear air, without solid objects or the illumination of light. On some of our photographs of space, however, studied close to, even without a...

He is a real space researcher. We can no longer simply call him a tourist.

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and...

If they can bring the same efficiencies to radio ad buying that they’ve shown in the search space, they’ll be able to provide a cheaper alternative to more antiquated means of being able to buy...

I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It’s fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it’s tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead...

We’ve made more space where there was none. We have expanded by 12 booths this year by using the lobby.

I’ve been lucky enough to fly to space twice.