“Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic,” his pedia said.” — James Edwin Gunn Copy Share Image
Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
“Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
The more you learn about the real vastness of space and the real challenges of space travel, the more completely you appreciate… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today,… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to… — Algis Budrys Copy Share Image
“But define 'completely ridiculous shit,'" Duvall said. "Does space travel count? Contact with alien races? Does quantum physics count? Because I don't… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
“The words beat through me like a cosmic string that threatened to dissolve my molecular bonds. The wave fed upon itself until… — William David Hannah Copy Share Image
“Normal people have rock collections, shell collections, key ring collections and stamp collections. (The Captain had even known somebody with a letterbox… — Elizabeth Newton Copy Share Image
“… the vices and wickedness of the Secular Era, some of which still lingered, he said, in the cities of the East… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“I decided that a movie marathon was clearly in order. I tried to narrow down the options. Anything romantic was definitely out,… — M.A. George Copy Share Image
When 'Apollo 13' appeared as an opportunity and I began to tackle that in as authentic a way as I possibly could,… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“We are in the process of finding out what filling the sky with hundreds of thousands of satellites does to all life… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I define science fiction as fiction in which things happen that are not possible today - that depend, for instance, on advanced… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space travel can transform things back here… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
My position is that it is high time for a calm debate on more fundamental questions. Does human spaceflight continue to serve… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
In sci-fi convention, life-forms that hadn't developed space travel were mere prehistory -- horse-shoe crabs of the cosmic scene -- and something… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Is there any possibility of giving international air travel, which we all need and use and hate, a touch of glamour, or… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“As when astronaut Mike Mulhane was asked by a NASA psychiatrist what epitaph he'd like to have on his gravestone, Mulhane answered,… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It really seems to me sometimes that the only hope is space. That is to say, perhaps the most energeticin a bad… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .'… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Space travel is the only technology that is more dangerous and more expensive now than it was in its first year. Fifty… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
“Humans spent thousands of years looking up at the stars and wondering what was out there. You guys never saw stars at… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
At two-tenths the speed of light, dust and atoms might not do significant damage even in a voyage of 40 years, but… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'd like to get shot into space. I'd like to potentially visit the moon. I don't know if I can do that… — Rob Dyrdek Copy Share Image
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Our singer, Matt, was reading Stephen Hawking and other physics-related books, and I was reading entrepreneurial books, and we all started discussing… — Synyster Gates Copy Share Image
When the history books are written in a thousand years, when space travel would have become routine, the moment that humans first… — Helen Sharman Copy Share Image
We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant… — Burt Rutan Copy Share Image
Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
