America was good enough to make a small compact lighter weight nuclear weapon. The Russians still had these big clunky heavy ones,… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Long ago when a child lay in a manger, a special star appeared. It didn't just show up that evening. It had… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Human sexuality includes more than hormones, organs, and orgasms; it runs through the psychic and spiritual ranges of our lives. We experience… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
At one time, the treatment for a certain kind of psychosis had been to push an ice pick up through the orbit… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens… — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Men go forth to marvel at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the broad flow of the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves..." If the veil were rent today, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music.… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with the grander… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the man who observes the myriad stars, and considers that they and their innumerable satellites move in their serene dignity through… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
You're in orbit over the Earth. And suddenly it's very, very quiet. It's dramatic. You realize you're floating in the straps in… — Marc Garneau Copy Share Image
I'm no expert on types of cars. As far as i'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
Before the current decade ends, fee-paying passengers will be experiencing suborbital flights aboard privately funded vehicles. . . . It won't be… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The world, the human world, is bound together not by protons and electrons, but by stories. Nothing has meaning in itself: all… — Brian Morton Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“If you can orbit the planet, why can't you see what makes the human heart happy? Is it art or is it… — Dan Chiasson Copy Share Image
The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The dead spacecraft in orbit have become a permanent fixture around our planet, not unlike the rings of Saturn. They will be… — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
For the last several years and culminating in six months in orbit next year, I've been training for my third space flight.… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Things are going very smoothly. As expected, there are some minor glitches, and the eight minutes that it took us to get… — Laurel Clark Copy Share Image
By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There are thousands of asteroids whose orbit in the Solar System crosses that of Earth. And we have a little acronym for… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
It seems to me, thinking of it, that there must be some universal plan which set in motion the orbiting of the… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
See what the world looks like from orbit. Well, in that way, at least, there was profit to be had. Nobody could… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
