Quotes about space (5347 quotes, page 54)

“Our species is prone to a flattering view of itself. Humans have regarded themselves as the pinnacle of creation, formed by and in the image of an omnibenevolent, omniscient, and omnipotent God, and inhabiting a planet at the center of the universe—a planet around which all others revolve. Science has done much to debunk some of these ideas. We now know that our planet is not at the center of the universe: the earth revolves around the sun rather than vice versa. And we know—or at least some of us do—that we are Johnny-come-lately products of a long, blind evolutionary process.”

David Benatar (1966) South African philosopher

Permissible Progeny? The Morality of Procreation and Parenting (2015)
Source: Chapter 1: The Misanthropic Argument for Anti-natalism https://books.google.com/books?id=J6dBCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA44&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false (2015), p. 35-36

God , Idea , Science , Sun

“You cannot love persons you don't know. That's why we have to work on the schools and the universities to educate young generation to dialogue.”

Paul Youssef Matar (1941)

Source: Ecumenical and Inter-religious Dialogue by The Maronite Archbishop of Beirut Paul Youssef Matar https://onevoicechristians.org/videos (2019)

School , Personality , Education , Love

“Collaborations are unnatural. The writer is a jealous god. He builds his universe without interference. He resents the carping of mentally deficient critics, and the editor’s capricious demands for revisions. Let two writers try to make one universe, and their defenses get in the way.”

Larry Niven book N-Space

Building the Mote in God’s Eye (with Jerry Pournelle) (p. 442)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

God , Way

“Casual murder, casual suicide, casual crime. Why not? If alternate universes are a reality, then cause and effect are an illusion. The law of averages is a fraud. You can do anything, and one of you will, or did.”

Larry Niven book All the Myriad Ways

All the Myriad Ways (p. 79)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

Law , Fraud , Reality , Suicide

“In fantasy, more than in other forms of literature, the obligation is to teach something universally true about the human condition.”

Larry Niven book N-Space

Introduction to All the Myriad Ways (p. 71)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

Literature

“If Man makes Conscience, then being good
Is only being worldly wise,
And universal brotherhood
A comfortable compromise.”

Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet

The Door of Humility (1906)
Source: "Italy", XXXII, line 21; p. 82.

“All human thought, all science, all religion, is the holding of a candle to the night of the universe.”

Clark Ashton Smith (1893–1961) American author

Quoted in The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith (1979)

Religion , Night , Science

“We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.”

Manly P. Hall (1901–1990) Canadian writer and mystic

Think on These Things (1998), compiled by Clarke E. Johnston, p. 22
Other quotes

God

“The paths may be different but the laws remain universal.”

- Goa

Law

“On the pastoral level, the Cardinal should help the Holy Father as he does as a member of the universal Church.”

Francesco Monterisi (1934) Italian cardinal

Cardinal Monterisi in the footsteps of Saint Paul http://www.archivioradiovaticana.va/storico/2011/02/18/february_18,_2011/en1-462779 (12 February 2011)

Help

“Why stay in Chicago; what did the town have to justify its existence? One decent boulevard, one decent suburb to the north, priced for the rich, two universities and a lake. As for the rest, endless miles of depressing, dirty streets. The town was one big stockyard.”

Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author

The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag (p. 261)
Short fiction, The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein (1999)

“I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of a humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp!”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

1930s, Wisehart interview (1930)

God , Personality , Religion , Parting

“I do love romantic movies, but at my age it doesn’t happen very often. I’ve always admired love stories—the expression of love is like white light to me. Every color of the universe is in the love story.”

Nicolas Cage (1964) American actor

"Nicolas Cage Is Ready to Be Taken Seriously Again" in Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/07/nicolas-cage-pig-interview (15 July 2021)

Light , Color , Age , Love

“The claim is that educating moral sensibility through imagination has a general tendency, not a universal effect.”

A. C. Grayling (1949) English philosopher

Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 3, “Emancipation and Ethics” (p. 14)

Imagination , Education

“How do you like that? The future of the universe may be in the hands of a crazy woman.”

Catherine Asaro Saga of the Skolian Empire

Source: Saga of the Skolian Empire, Primary Inversion (1995), Chapter 11, “A Time to Speak” (p. 232)

Future

“If universal jurisdiction over our faithful is recognized to us, we can help foster this energy so that its strength is in the service of the universal Church. Otherwise what we lose the universal Church will lose.”

George Alencherry (1945) Catholic cardinal

“Ours is the faith of the apostles, handed down by St Thomas” http://www.30giorni.it/articoli_id_78071_l3.htm (2011)

Faith , Help

“Just a couple of decades ago, a course in the history of Western civilisation was commonplace. Today, it is so disreputable that you can’t pay universities to do it.”

Douglas Murray (1979) British political commentator and far-right activist

The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason (2022)

History

“As a liberal democracy, we’re also committed to promoting universal values like human rights, gender equality and the rule of law. We’ve always believed in these values, it’s what makes us who we are.”

Scott Morrison (1968) 30th Prime Minister of Australia

" Our Common Hope, UN General Assembly National Statement" https://www.pm.gov.au/media/our-common-hope-un-general-assembly-national-statement (26 September 2020)

Democracy , Law

“The problem of locating photos often confirms the indifference to women’s presence in history, as reflected in the media, books, historical records, museums, university libraries.”

Elizabeth Martinez (1925) American community organizer, activist, author, and educator

Source: (es) El problema de localizar fotografías confirma la indiferencia ante la presencia de las mujeres en la historia, cosa que se refleja constantemente en los medios, libros, archivos históricos, museos y bibliotecas universitarias.

Photo , History , Books , Indifference

“So this, in a nutshell, was my Enlightenment: free inquiry, universal education, individual freedom, the outlawing of private violence, and the protection of individual property rights.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) Dutch feminist, author

Source: 2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Chapter 14, “Opening the Muslim Mind: An Enlightenment Mind” (p. 212)

Freedom , Education

“Humor, fearlessness, seriousness, and honesty: the qualities that are hated with an equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies that are contending for tenure in the humanities departments of our universities.”

Theodore Dalrymple (1949) English doctor and writer

Migration: Multiculturalism and its Metaphors (2016)

Hate

“We live in a universe ruled by very few laws, but the redoubling of violence by violence is one of the main ones.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book The Years of Rice and Salt

Book 3: "Ocean Continents"
The Years of Rice and Salt (2002)

Law

“In the random flux of universal contingency, nothing mattered; and yet, and yet...”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 3, “Long Runout” (p. 125)

“Continuous expansion is a fundamental tenet of economics. Therefore one of the fundamentals of the universe itself. Because everything is economics. Physics is cosmic economics, biology is cellular economics, the humanities are social economics, psychology is mental economics, and so on.”

Kim Stanley Robinson book Green Mars

His listeners nodded unhappily.
“So everything is expanding. But it can’t happen in contradiction to the law of conservation of matter-energy. No matter how efficient your throughput is, you can’t get an output larger than the input.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 2, “The Ambassador” (pp. 76-77)

“If you can find out the nature of Maya, the universal illusion, it will leave you just as a thief runs away when detected.”

Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher

61
Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960)

Nature

“Whether you deserve something was never in question. You deserve it all. That is given in your very existence. The universe wants you to succeed and wants you to experience abundance, freedom and joy. It is simply not the kind of universe that treats you as if you are incapable of creating those things yourself. And this means that it loves you more than you want it to sometimes!”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Source: tealswan.com/quotes

Freedom , Question , Joy , Love

“I'm traveling alone
Up the highway of sight
The blue shadows fall
On the graveyard of stone
The mild afternoon
Puts the coffee cup down
My eyes see the moon... rise
And all I am is energy
And now I'm in this form
I came shooting down the universe at birth”

Steve Forbert (1954) American singer-songwriter

A Visitor
Song lyrics, Little Stevie Orbit (1980)

Coffee , Birth , Travel

“[H]e was a graduate in nature's university. Nature is wiser than the schoolmaster; she educates but she never crams. Her scholars do not go up to take their degrees; their degrees come to them.”

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer

Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 16, p. 198.

Nature , Education

“The Christian presence in the East, even in Aleppo is thousands of years old, since the time of the Apostles; therefore, it is very important that it continues, because this also benefits the universal Church - not only the East.”

Joseph Tobji (1971) archeparch of Maronite Catholic Archeparchy of Aleppo

War and economic crisis in Aleppo cause Christians to flee https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2021-12/syria-war-christian-tobji-joseph.html (13 December 2021)

Time

“Conscientious objection is a universally established right; I think that sometimes the problem is how it is understood or put into practice. Doctors and nurses have the right to have their moral, spiritual, and personal convictions respected, but never in detriment to or contempt of anyone.”

Rogelio Cabrera López (1951) Roman Catholic archbishop

Church supports conscientious objection for medical professionals in Nuevo Leon https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/42683/church-supports-conscientious-objection-for-medical-professionals-in-nuevo-leon (27 October 2019)

Personality , Problem , Thinking

“Cosmonautics has a boundless future, its prospects are boundless, like the Universe itself!”

Sergei Korolev (1906–1966) Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer

Original: (ru) Космонавтика имеет безграничное будущее, ее перспективы беспредельны, как сама Вселенная!,
Source: https://shkola-kletskij.oshkole.ru/news/93283.html "Всем в космос"

Future

“Cultural products which present women who do not want to be household slaves or universal mothers or sex objects as bitches or sexual failures objectively aid male supremacy.”

Meredith Tax (1942) American writer

Source: "Culture is not Neutral, Whom Does it Serve?" (1972), p. 15

Bitch , Failure , Sex , Women