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Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where pas...

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Not just beautiful, though--the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing. And the...

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Unable to sleep after the others had drowsed off, I crawled out of the tent and lay on the ground, l...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most ...

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The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

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In almost every profession - whether it's law or journalism, finance or medicine or academia or runn...

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Have you ever plunged into the immensity of space and time by reading the geological treatises of Cu...

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Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you d...

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Isaac AsimovPebble in the Sky

The stars, like dust, encircle meIn living mists of light;And all of space I seem to seeIn one vast ...

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At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, ...

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Isabel AllendeThe House of the Spirits

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more...

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...And meanwhile the Galaxy ran through space and left behind those signs old and new and I still ha...

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If the ancients had been able to see it as I see it now, Mr. Palomar thinks, they would have thought...

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Once it gets off the ground into space, all science fiction is fantasy.

I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transm...

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Jack KerouacThe Portable Jack Kerouac

What was after the universe?Nothing. But was there anything round the universe to show where it stop...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived fr...

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James Prescott JouleThe Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule - Volume 1

Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I'm in a space that is not pos...

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I am fascinated by the dailies, what is daily.

At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and l...

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Jeanette WintersonSexing the Cherry

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

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Jeanette WintersonThe World and Other Places: Stories

I looked not for shooting stars but for fixed ones, and I would try to imagine what kind of life liv...

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This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 m...

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Memories aren't stored in the heart or the head or even the soul, if you ask me, but in the spaces b...

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Discover the force of the skies O Men: once recognised it can be put to use.

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Johannes KeplerEpitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, a...

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We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but b...

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There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. Its hazards are hostil...

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If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

As in the universe every atom has an effect, however minuscule, on every other atom, so that to pinc...

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John Gardner (British writer)The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

The space station is the most unique laboratory we've ever built. The reason we have it is to do res...

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She noted, more than once, that the meteor shower was happening, beyond the overcast sky, even if we...

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John Green (author)Turtles All the Way Down

I must go down to the sea...to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship, and a star ...

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Freedom - an occupied space which must be reoccupied every day.

Whereas Nature does not admit of more than three dimensions ... it may justly seem very improper to ...

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You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to f...

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It's funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what...

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Jon StewartEarth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race

. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Provi...

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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discover...

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Joseph FourierThe Analytical Theory of Heat

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled b...

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The internet has become a political space. I think that is one of the most important developments in...

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It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was someth...

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Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

I myself have dreamed up a structure intermediate between Dyson spheres and planets. Build a ring 93...

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Tej seemed such a sunny personality, much of the time--these flashes of dark were like a crack in th...

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Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

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Lynn MargulisMicrocosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution

Lords of space and Lords of time,Lords of blessing, Lords of grace,Who is in the warmer clime?Who wi...

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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and ...

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All of us - who might have probed space, or cured cancer, or built industries - were, instead, black...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.

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Marcel ProustThe Captive & The Fugitive

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and ...

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Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, ...

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Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to...

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I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more ...

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Those are the kinds of roles you can really sink your teeth into. Characters with an edge. When you'...

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I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady p...

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A new darkness pulled away the room, inked out flesh and outlined bones. My mother was wide awake ag...

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The rocket was beautiful. In conception it had been shaped by an artist to break a chain that had bo...

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People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks ...

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Michel FaberThe Book of Strange New Things

It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipul...

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Be not entangled in this world of days and nights Thou hast another time and space as well.

You mentioned . . . one of the two great labyrinths into which the mind is drawn. What . . . is the ...

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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...

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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments...

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I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Unive...

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The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

Doing what has never been done before is intellectually seductive, whether or not we deem it practic...

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Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.

The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values ...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not h...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard—explored not only wi...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Science literacy is being plugged into the forces that power the universe. There is no excuse for th...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more of...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe bu...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

If the whole world shared such experiences, we would then have common dreams and everybody could beg...

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Neil deGrasse TysonSpace Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space...

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Neil deGrasse TysonThe Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

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Norbert WienerThe Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society

There is always space for improvement, no matter how long you've been in the business.

Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.

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Orhan PamukThe Museum of Innocence

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size,...

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He was cold and tired, but he ignored the cold. Around him stars shone. Some bright, some dim, the m...

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We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah,...

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Seulement la terre qui obéit,sait bien qu'elle tourne en rond,tandis que nous vers l'infininous préc...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Complete French Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is v...

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We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

He balanced in space with the book in his sweating cold fingers.

Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks a...

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Parsifal is on his way to the temple of the Grail Knights and says: “I hardly move, yet far I seem t...

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…the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.