These quotes about space and the universe will inspire you to reach for the stars. The possibilities in life are infinite!
Space Exploration Quotes
Few things inspire us to dream and imagine like space exploration. The vast and infinite expanses of the universe have a way of making our problems seem small and our accomplishments seem great.
These quotes about space combine the wonder of the universe with the determination and courage it takes to explore it. As with all words of wisdom, the meaning of them can also be applied to our everyday lives.
Best Space Quotes
Let’s start with the famous space is big quote from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:
Space, it says, is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is.
– Douglas Adams
I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.
– Arthur C Clarke
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.
– John Young
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
– Neil Armstrong
Cosmology does, I think, affect the way that we perceive humanity’s role in nature. One thing we’ve learnt from astronomy is that the future lying ahead is more prolonged than the past. Even our sun is less than halfway through its life.
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
I don’t think the human race will survive the next thousand. years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I’m an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.
– Stephen Hawking
Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.
– Doris Lessing
Einstein was searching for String Theory. It not only reconciles General Relativity to Quantum Mechanics, but it reconciles Science and the Bible as well.
– Roy H. Williams
In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance…
― Pierre Boulle.
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity!
– George Sterling
In my studies of astronomy and philosophy I hold this opinion about the universe, that the Sun remains fixed in the centre of the circle of heavenly bodies, without changing its place; and the Earth, turning upon itself, moves round the Sun.
– Galileo Galilei
If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.
– Ron Garan
I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
– John Glenn
Space has the ability to produce a triple bottom line, or ROIII: Return on Investment, Innovation, and Inspiration.
– Robert C. Jacobson
I looked and looked but I didn’t see God.
– Yuri Gagarin
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Yet, for most of us, the most memorable sight was not of the moon but of our beautiful blue and white home, moving majestically around the sun, all alone in the infinite black space.
– Alan Bean
I see Earth! It is so beautiful.
– Yuri Gagarin
Quotes About Space
Without space, there is no time.
– Dejan Stojanovic
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
– Galileo Galilei
Gravity hurts.
– Viktor Alexandrov
There can be no centre in infinity.
– Lucretius
Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered.
– Edgar D Mitchell
Love is the one thing that transcends time and space.”
– Matthew McConaughey
Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.
– Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
I’m convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.
– Wernher Von Braun
The American, by nature, is optimistic.
It’s easy to sleep floating around — it’s very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don’t float into somebody or something!
– James Irwin
Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.
– Andy Weir
NASA’s next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it’s really like.
– Shannon Hale
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
– Stephen Hawking
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Curiosity is the essence of our existence.
– Gene Cernan
The supreme reality of our time is…our common vulnerability on this planet.
– John F. Kennedy
Inspiring Words About Space
For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained and that’s our present universe.
During that time, there will be advances in nanotechnology, space sailing, robotics, biomolecular engineering, and artificial intelligence.
– Louis Friedman
The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only the few govern its destiny.
– RG Risch
I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all.
– Allan Shepard
In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.
– Alan Guth
We are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite.
– Ilyas Kassam
Well, space is there, and we’re going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.
– John F. Kennedy
When forced to summarize the general theory of relativity in one sentence: Time and space and gravitation have no separate existence from matter.
– Albert Einstein
This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.
– John F. Kennedy
The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.
– Larry Niven
When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.
– Alan Shepherd
Unless humanity gives top priority to the space science, there will be no future for the humanity!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein.
– Carl Sagan
Part of life’s mystery depends on future possibilities, and mystery is an elusive quality which evaporates when sampled frequently, to be followed by boredom.
– Michael Collins
The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were only aware of one Earth.
– Sultan Bin Salman al Suad
How instructive is a star!
– Piet Hein
Space Quotations
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic.
– Alexi Leonov
We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.
– Ron Garan
The history of astronomy is a history of receding horizons.
– Edwin Powell Hubble
Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.
– Johannes Keple
In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty seven thousand million suns.
– Arthur C. Clarke
She had always loved the stars.
– Sasha Alsberg
The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.
– Carl Sagan
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
– Carl Sagan
And their death was a supernova their death demanded attention.
– Jasmine Warga
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
– Albert Einstein
In the van, we can see the rocket in the distance, lit up and shining, an obelisk. In reality, of course, it’s a 4.5 megaton bomb loaded with explosive fuel, which is why everyone else is driving away from it.
– Chris Hadfield
Shuttles raced to the presumed safety of the planet below while fighters crisscrossed the perimeter of the station.
– GS Jennsen
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
– Stephen Hawking
What we call ‘time’ isn’t chronological but spatial; what we call ‘death’ is merely a transition between different kinds of matter.
– Stephane Audeguy
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
– Neil Armstrong
Quotes To Do With Space
Where the stars are scattered thinly,’ quoted Barr, ‘And the cold of space seeps in.
– Isaac Asimov
The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in the race for space.
– John F. Kennedy
The eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace.
– John F. Kennedy
Planet Earth is actually a giant spaceship floating through space.
– Unknown*
Things aren’t scary. People are scared.
– Chris Hadfield
So you say, ‘Well, we can try to go to Europa, but it might fail, or maybe the technology won’t come for yet another decade or we know how to get to Mars. We know how to do air bags and drop rovers and those sort of things, so let’s do that.’ So we’re prioritizing not so much the science but we’re prioritizing what’s doable.
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable.
– John F. Kennedy
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.
– Buzz Aldrin
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
– Albert Einstein
Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.
– Seneca
Most of what Einstein said and did has no direct impact on what anybody reads in the Bible. Special relativity, his work in quantum mechanics, nobody even knows or cares. Where Einstein really affects the Bible is the fact that general relativity is the organizing principle for the Big Bang.
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.
– Ron Garan
The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.
– Pierre Boulle
In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space… But you laid the foundation for space tourism.
– Nursultan Nazarbayev
Time is the mind of space.
– Samuel Alexander
This means that most of the lunar surface material has a consistency that is finer than granulated sugar.
– Maggie Aderin Pocock
Say hello to my mother and father…the Earth and Space.
– Jimi Hendrix
It is a fixer upper of a planet but we could make it work.
– Elon Musk
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
– Carl Sagan
Sure, there are dead stars. But at least before they died, they were stars.
Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space.
– Christa McAuliffe
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