Human civilization Quote by Michelle Madow

“I loved looking at the stars—they put in perspective how small I was compared to the Universe. Each of those hundreds of billions of…

— Michelle Madow

“Everything in life had a purpose, and unless it achieved that purpose, it was just taking up space on the planet and wasting everybody's…

— Jeannette Walls

“In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the exploration of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Tiny slivers of life--they all added up and helped you to feel that you too could be a fragment, a little piece of humanity…

— Gail Honeyman

“I remember us saying that we liked small houses, that proximity engendered closeness in a family. That nobody should be raised by a nanny…

— Jonathan Evison

“It was a rare brain that could feel strongly about anything, if it wasn't close in space, close in time, near at hand, within…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it.”

— Bill Loguidice

A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether…

— Robert Wise

“Life is precious. Infinitely so. Perhaps it takes a machine intelligence to appreciate that." ~"Understanding Space & Time”

— Alastair Reynolds

“They simply had very different notions of what ought to take up most space in life.”

— J.K. Rowling

“Things have their forms not only in space, but also in time.”

— Alan Moore