Outer Space Quotes

“The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.”
― Ellen DeGeneres

“He's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right there in front of him. Billions and billions of stars. Billions and billions of worlds. All of them, all of those seemingly endless possibilities, not fictional, but real, out there, existing, right now. There is so much more out there than just the world he knows, so much more than his tiny Washington town, so much more than even London. Or England. Or hell, for that matter.

So much more that he'll never see. So much more that he'll never get to. So much that he can only glimpse enough of to know that it's forever beyond his reach.”
― Patrick Ness, More Than This

“Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

“Could it be that God was an extra-terrestrial? What do we mean when we say that heaven is in the clouds? From Jesus Christ to Elvis Presley, every culture tells us of high-flying bird men who zoom around the world creating magnificent works of art and choosing willing followers to share in the eternal glory from beyond the stars. Can all these related phenomena merely be dismissed as coincidence?”
― Erich von Daniken, Chariots of The Gods

“There were only the great diamonds and sapphires and emerald mists and velvet inks of space, with God's voice mingling among the crystal fires.”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

“Eleanor, I bought the Simpson place because I’ve always wanted the forest on that land. I got more than I bargained for. Tuesday, I went out there to take a walk in the forest and I found something. That something has become as you say my ‘friend.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars middle-sized, those of Venus very small. Unless it is the same everywhere. There are businessmen, police up there; people trade, fight, dethrone their kings.
Some shooting stars suddenly slid past, describing a course in the sky like the parabola of a monstrous rocket.
‘My Word,’ said Bouvard, ‘look at those worlds disappearing.’
Pecuchet replied: ‘If our world in its turn danced about, the citizens of the stars would be no more impressed than we are now. Ideas like that are rather humbling.’
‘What is the point of it all?’
‘Perhaps there isn’t a point.’
‘Yet…’ and Pecuchet repeated the word two or three times, without finding anything more to say.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet

“They are crystals, Mr. Williams,” Ferg said, “but unlike any other crystals on this planet. If I were to put a label on the spheres, each is a Dynamically Layered Organic Crystal Lattice. Something like this has been theorized, but it has remained in the theory stage because no one could imagine how to make them.”
― C.A. Knutsen, Tom and G.E.R.I.

“At this point I thought 'We made it,' by which I meant 'We survived.' I also was acutely aware that my childhood dream of flying into space had just come true.”
― Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles

“Cursing his luck, he wished he’d stayed at work just a little longer. His heart was pounding. Murder. He’d just witnessed a murder. ”
― Christian Warren Freed, The Lazarus Men

“There is nothing particularly special about that location of the centre of mass. If you were to find yourself at the precise spot that is the centre of mass of the earth-moon system, the only thing unusual that you would notice is that there would be one thousand miles of rock on top of your head.
Pluto is only about twice the size of Charon, so if you put Pluto and Charon on the cosmic seesaw you would find that the balance point is a little bit outside Pluto, rather than inside it. Again, there is nothing particularly special going on there. If you were to find yourself at that precise spot, you would only notice that you were very, very cold and could no longer breathe.”
― Mike Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

“Sorry. Just paralyzed by the indescribable beauty of the cosmos. We'll get to work.”
― Daniel Suarez, Delta-v

“Like we're here, and at the same time, in outer space. Which of course, we are. We're all untethered, all flying around in the dark, the same as Mars and Venus, the same as the stars.”
― Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia

“Stars are born
babies, just like us.
They live their lives,
then die without fuss.”
― Joseph Raphael Becker, Annabelle & Aiden: Worlds Within Us

“What we wanted was to see planets taste life in a way they never had.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“To think that there is no life outside of the world is actually an extremely sick thought, a disease! So what is this disease? Ego! Our existence is very special, our existence is a miracle and there cannot be such a miracle elsewhere! This is an ego, a huge ego!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“While man sleeps, strange things flock to nature.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“It was beginning to look as if he hadn't just found a sign of water on a destitute planet, he'd found a sign that the same planet had penguins. Those would be two fundamentally different breakthroughs.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“Despite having had a UN treaty on the peaceful uses of outer space since 1967, you
could say we haven’t yet learnt how to be peaceful in outer space.”
― Alice Gorman, Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future

“How can I sleep with my eyes closed when there are thousands of beautiful stars above me?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The size of the blackhole will determine the distance that you will travel in time and space, but it will be inverse to the size & distance.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“When the main engines cut off, I felt I was no longer chasing space. I had arrived.”
― Leland Melvin, Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances

“Astronomers are exploring outer-Space and I am exploring human-space.”
― Steven Magee

“Writing makes sense when nothing else does. My thoughts need an outlet, jettisoning off to some place. Could it be to a parallel universe or to outer space? Do aliens also write their thoughts in their diaries?”
― Avijeet Das

“If black holes were of a 3d construct, then it is feasible that we should have seen a tail end of one by now, but we haven't. This leads me to believe that black holes are actually flat. We only perceive them as having depth, just like the 3d paintings that we see around the world. This then would also lead me to believe that there is no outlet within this universe unless we do don't recognize the exit mechanism.
A whirlpool has depth and volume, but say if it didn't, then would that too be a black hole within a water world?”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“If black holes were 3d then we would have been able to spot the back end of one, but since we haven't located a back door to one, then it must mean that it is 2d in appearance, which then means there must be another dimension or physics at work in there that we don't know about.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“Light takes eight minutes to travel from the sun to Earth, so if you look at it one way there’s a grace period between when the star stops burning and when the light runs out. But if you look at the first moment without light as the first possible information heralding the end of the star, there’s no time in between the star’s collapse and the light running out. The eight minutes carry the moment of collapse on their backs.”
― Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance

“Microplastics will have explored the known universe long before man ever will.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“If I was a betting man, I would bet every cent that the moon will have microplastics all over the moon.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“The stars grow tired, shrug their shoulders, and fall out of the sky, wearing nothing but robes of comet-white. Is she not one of the stars? She casts off her robes—steps into my room—and composes constellations.”
― Moses Yuriyvich Mikheyev, A Fire in the Sunset: A Decade of Love Poems