“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” – Carl Sagan
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive if your car could go straight up.” – Fred Hoyle
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan
“Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.” – Carl Sagan
“In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.” – Terry Pratchett
“The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.” – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.” – Les Brown
“The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter from here.” – Sally Ride
“The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Curiosity is the essence of our existence.” – Gene Cernan
“Astronomy compels the soul to look upward and leads us from this world to another.” – Plato
“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate.” – Carl Sagan
“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible.” – Albert Einstein
“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.” – Stephen Hawking
“Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” – Socrates
“Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.” – Buzz Aldrin
“Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.” – Stephenie Meyer
“For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.” – Vincent van Gogh
“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.” – Carl Sagan
“The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.” – Alan Shepard
“Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.” – Isaac Newton
“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.” – Carl Sagan
“The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.” – Alfred Noyes
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.” – Bill Watterson
“The stars are the land-marks of the universe.” – Sir John Frederick William Herschel
“I don’t know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.” – John Glenn
“It suddenly struck me that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth.” – Neil Armstrong
“Space has the ability to produce a triple bottom line, or ROIII: Return on Investment, Innovation, and Inspiration.” – Robert C. Jacobson
“To see the Earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the Earth together.” – Archibald MacLeish
“The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.” – Rabindranath Tagore
“The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.” – Muriel Rukeyser
“Time and space are fragments of the infinite for the use of finite creatures.” – Henri Frederic Amiel
“I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space.” – Stephen Hawking
“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” – Ray Bradbury
“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars.” – Carl Sagan
“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.” – Douglas Adams
“The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.” – Carl Sandburg
“Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.” – Muhammad Iqbal
“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.” – Werner Heisenberg
“It is in the stars. I am sure.” – E.M. Forster
“The stars are the streetlights of eternity.” – Unknown
“Outer space is not a convenience, it’s a necessity.” – Elon Musk
“We are at home in the cosmos. We are stardust that evolved to contemplate the stars.” – Brian Cox
“Only when we explore our boundaries will we find out who we are and where we came from.” – Unknown
“The infinite silence of space fills us with awe, wonder, and humility.” – Unknown
“Space exploration is a way of uniting people, regardless of borders.” – Unknown
“Our universe is a symphony of creation, infinite in its reach and beauty.” – Unknown