#Space Quotes

“Art and power will go on as they have done,--will make day out of night, time out of space, and space out of time.”

“That great Cathedral space which was childhood.”

“Out Milky Way is the dwelling; the nebulae are the city.”

“Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age,—lasting as space and time,—embosomed in time and space.”

“Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space.”

“I like to have space to spread my mind out in.”

“Now when we opened Disneyland, outer space was Buck Rogers.”

“All artists need a room of their own”

“Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three.”

“Black holes. I don't know what people see in them. Exit signs? They're on their way out.”

“The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.”

“Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite.”

“If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?”

“If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?”

“We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart.”

“Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.”

“Let's get my incantation right:"I wish I may, I wish I might"Give earth another satellite.”

“Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.”

“Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.”

“It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.”

“There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.”

“Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?”

“This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it.”

“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.”

“Shape clay into a vessel;It is the space within that makes it useful.Cut doors and windows for a room;It is the holes which make it useful.Therefore benefit comes from what is there;Usefulness from what is not there.”

“Clay is moulded to make a vessel, but the utility of the vessel lies in the space where there is nothing. . . . Thus, taking advantage of what is, we recognize the utility of what is not.”

“We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it liveable.”

“Cut out doors and windows for the house. The holes make it useful.”

“An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”

“Thirty spokes meet in the hub. Where a wheel isn't is where it's useful. Hollowed out, clay makes a pot. Where the pots not is where it's useful. Cut doors and windows to make a room. Where the room isn't, there's room for you. So the profit in what is, is in the use of what isn't.”

“A vessel is formed from a lump of clay with care, however, it is the empty space within the vessel that makes it useful.”

“Marriage is like a temple resting on two pillars. If they come too close to each other the temple will collapse.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.”

“Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”

“And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.”

“Thirty spokes meet in the hub,but the empty space between themis the essence of the wheel.Pots are formed from clay,but the empty space within itis the essence of the pot.Walls with windows and doorsform the house,but the empty space within itis the essence of the home.”

“Let there be spaces in your togetherness”

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

“Leave a space and something will fill it.”

“Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.”

“The great thing about the dead, they make space.”

“I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable.”

“One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when we began to utter the big thoughts in big words. You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.”

“Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.”

“Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.”

“Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.”

“I had but three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.”

“The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.”

“Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.”

“Sometimes the best way to keep peace in the family is to keep the members of the family apart for awhile.”