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Space Quotes

Satiate Your Quest of the Unknown With These Space Quotes

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The endless expanse of space filled with celestial objects, cosmic energy, and unknown entities, fills our hearts with awe. Lurking behind the unknown and the unexplored, space beckons us and leaves us spellbound. When we cannot explain the unknown, we express them with metaphors and quotes. Here are some space quotes that attempt to unlock the enigma.

Douglas Adams
Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Albert Einstein
Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Space is the breath of art.

Joseph Joubert
Space is to place as eternity is to time.

Carl Gustav Jung
Space flights are merely an escape, a fleeing away from oneself, because it is easier to go to Mars or to the moon than it is to penetrate one's own being.

Blaise Pascal
Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

Dan Quayle
Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

Christa McAuliffe
Space is going to be commonplace.

Natalie Wood
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.

Robert Anton Wilson
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

Marshall McLuhan
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Neil Armstrong
That's one step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Pius XII
God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.

Lyndon B. Johnson
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.

Joseph Joubert
Space is the stature of God.

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