# Space Quotes! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 19, 2015, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564 "2015-07-19T01:33:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/21 "2015-07-19T14:40:20Z")
From _Space Oddity_: “Here am I floating round my tin can… far above the Moon” “Planet Earth is blue… and there’s nothing I can do.” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/22 "2015-07-19T15:59:08Z")
Nuke it/them from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/23 "2015-07-19T16:14:29Z")
My space capsule is full of eels. or Let’s go to geosynchronos orbit and throw some shit up there. 1 Liftoff. 2 ??? 3 Profit! Okay, I just made those up. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/24 "2015-07-19T16:53:07Z")
“The chances of anything coming from Mars is a million-to-one,” they said. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/25 "2015-07-19T17:56:30Z")
“Mr. President, status control on Jupiter 2. As of this moment, the spacecraft has passed the limits of our galaxy. It’s presumed to be hopelessly lost in space.” ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/26 "2015-07-19T19:06:59Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > “Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve.” – John Archibald Wheeler “The [starship] _Heart of Gold_ told space to get knotted, and parked itself neatly within the inner steel perimeter of the Argabuthon Chamber of Law.” “If only the comet could return to the cometary halo [it would regroup and survive]. But there appeared to be something in it its path.” ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/27 "2015-07-19T19:15:50Z")
Space. The final frontier. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/28 "2015-07-19T19:20:42Z")
Tractators! Dinosaurs! On a space ship! Let’s see what’s out there. The stars, like dust, surround me. "Go for throttle up … " :::Challenger explodes::: ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/29 "2015-07-19T19:38:19Z")
> [@](#): > > You can’t blame gravity for falling in love. -Albert Einstein > [@](#): > > Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. -Edwin Hubble > [@](#): > > Space is to place as eternity is to time. -Joseph Joubert ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@Troy\_McClure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/30 "2015-07-19T20:13:41Z")
JEWS IN SPAAAAAAACE! And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/31 "2015-07-19T21:05:14Z")
“I kill you now in the name of his Shadow!” “Would you care to join me in watching a Super Nova? It is a once in a lifetime experience.” ---
**Author:** ![donkeyoatey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47c2d/32.png) [@donkeyoatey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donkeyoatey)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/32 "2015-07-19T21:15:26Z")
Lone Star, I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former roommate. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/33 "2015-07-19T23:35:03Z")
“Klaatu barada nikto.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/34 "2015-07-20T01:49:01Z")
Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I’m small but I’m also big. I’m big because I’m connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me. \_Neil DeGrasse Tyson ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/35 "2015-07-20T02:17:23Z")
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard… .” - John F. Kennedy, 1961 “To infinity…and beyond!” ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/36 "2015-07-20T02:35:51Z")
_Andromeda_: The universe is a beautiful place, full of wonders. And it wants to kill you. _The Right Stuff_: Our Germans are better than their Germans. it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that’s on TV _Apollo 13_: From now on, we live in a world where man has walked on the moon. And it’s not a miracle, we just decided to go. We’ve never lost an American in space, we’re sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/37 "2015-07-20T02:51:30Z")
We pray for one last landing On the globe that gave us birth Let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies And the cool, green hills of Earth. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/38 "2015-07-20T03:42:06Z")
Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. Both quotes by Carl Sagan from his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/39 "2015-07-20T04:23:36Z")
“Ground Control to Major Tom…” ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2015, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/space-quotes/725564/40 "2015-07-20T04:28:49Z")
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