Books Quote by Alastair Reynolds

Space is a harsh, inhospitable frontier and we are explorers, not colonisers. The skills of our engineers and the technology surrounding us make things…

— Luca Parmitano

“Suddenly we were in outer space. Aboard a rusty old piece of junk freighter. Far away. And in real trouble.”

— Jonathan Maberry

“You have sea, you have boat, you have oars, and then why on earth you are rotting in the port?”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Everyone's in the space industry. They just don't know it yet.

— Dylan Taylor

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

— Malcolm Bradbury

“The explorers and the drifters and the spacehands are misfits mostly, and, therefore, men of imagination. The contrast between the rigid functionalism inside a…

— C.L. Moore

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

“We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship but are never able to start afresh from the bottom.”

— Otto Neurath

We are like sailors who have to rebuild their ship on the open sea, without ever being able to dismantle it in dry-dock and…

— Otto Neurath

Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

— Bill Nye

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

— P. J. O'Rourke