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The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries. — Carl Sagan · 1980Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. — Fred Hoyle · 1979God, it sucks up here. — Max Lennert · 1998Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go-and he'll do plenty well when he gets there. — Wernher von Braun · 1958Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events. — Jonathan Swift · 1727Weightlessness is a great equalizer. — Sally Ride · 1984
Space travel2 quotes
Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go-and he'll do plenty well when he gets there. — Wernher von Braun · 1958Weightlessness is a great equalizer. — Sally Ride · 1984
Comets1 quote
Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events. — Jonathan Swift · 1727
Origin of the universe1 quote
The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries. — Carl Sagan · 1980
The mysterious1 quote
The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries. — Carl Sagan · 1980
The universe1 quote
The cosmos is all there is or ever was or ever will be. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. There is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a great height. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries. — Carl Sagan · 1980