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“Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. . . . Space is, after all, solid, monolithic. . . . Time, on the other...”
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary master...”
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.”
“The words beat through me like a cosmic string that threatened to dissolve my molecular bonds. The wave fed upon itself until the tsunami it created swept me out of my life and into a world of conf...”
“I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.”
“Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life meunderstand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black.”
“I think I would make a very good astronaut.To be a good astronaut you have to be intelligent and Im intelligent. You also have to understand how machines work and Im good at understanding how machi...”
“We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein.”
“Radical space technologies never reach the public because unknown groups do not wish humanity to have access to the highest knowledge or the most advanced scientific inventions. Perhaps this suppre...”
“I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I re...”
“Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.”
“The old sailors who traveled Earth's seas were said to have loved the ocean. The great captains said they were married to the sea or called the sea their mistress. Modern sailors held no such fanta...”
“Lights come and go in the night sky. Men, troubled at last by the things they build, may toss in their sleep and dream bad dreams, or lie awake while the meteors whisper greenly overhead. But nowhe...”
“after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”
“Zaki never grew tired of looking at the whiteness of Roars hair. It was as if the moon and the stars had taken root in it. And perhaps they had, so long ago when Roar travelled amongst them in his ...”
“Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory.”
“...to this day there is something illusionistic and illusory about the relationship of time and space as we experience it in traveling, which is why whenever we come home from elsewhere we never fe...”
“Space is so fucking awesome.”
“He also said - pointedly - that space travel nowadays was an escape from the problems of Earth. That is, one took off for the stars in the hope that the worst would happen and be done with in one's...”
“I cared not a whit whether Time were a form of thought, or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed?”
