Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe… — Duane G. Carey 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
For if there were a list of cosmic things that unite us, reader and writer, visible as it scrolled up into the… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Research into manned spaceflight is shifting from low-Earth orbit to destinations much further away, like Mars and the asteroid belt. But society… — Andy Weir Copy Share Image
There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
“Women were gravitating towards him from all directions like a planetary orbit. (Zoe on meeting Justus)” — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half. — Robert Crippen Copy Share Image
... so long as woman sat with bandaged eyes and manacled hands, fast bound in the clamps of ignorance and inaction, the… — Anna Julia Cooper 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
Well, what I don't get is why do we exist? I don't mean how, but why.' I watched the fireflies of his… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an… — Daniel Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented -… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
“Her ghost is still orbiting Earth inside the tiny dim lit room. Orbiting endlessly like an invisible moon circling our beautiful blue… — Gayendra Copy Share Image
I’m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image