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“I'll tell you, being involved in human space flight, it is an emotional endeavor. I think it brings in the highest highs and the lowest lows.”

Thinking Humans Space Emotional Involved Highest Lows Flight Endeavor Lowest Space Flight

Author:Ellen Ochoa

“The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.”

Thinking Humans Nature Space Quality Critical Saving Welfare Quality Of Life Wildlife Open Spaces Wildlife Conservation Animal Conservation

Author:Jim Fowler

“The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul doesn't need a physical body to inhabit. So eventually everybody who ever lived will be resurrected inside a living machine indistinguishable from God. Isn't it amazing what you can do with unlimited hard-disk space?”

Needs Firsts Humans Soul Hard Body Can Do Space Perfect Prove Computer Machines Unlimited Silicon Physical Body Simulation Disk

Author:Frank J. Tipler

“In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They can succeed because of the surprising power of the laws of information, which are conducive to human creativity. The central concept of information theory is a measure of freedom of choice. The principle of matter, on the other hand, is not liberty but limitation- it has weight and occupies space.”

Source: Knowledge and Power: The Information Theory of Capitalism and How it is Revolutionizing our World

“To most humans, a universe consisting of particles banging about and doing what they have to do seems cold, barren, and without meaning. Meaning, however, is not something that floats in space, permeating the universe like a nebulous, mystical cloud. ... Meaning arises out of the working of the human mind, and therefore exists only in the human mind. The meaning of existence is whatever you want to make of it.”

Want Mind Humans Seems Universe Space Existence Cold Clouds Arise Human Mind Mystical Floats Particles Barren Banging

Author:Milton A. Rothman

“Now the work of art also represents a state of final equilibrium, of accomplished order and maximum relative entropy, and there are those who resent it. But art is not meant to stop the stream of life. Within a narrow span of duration and space the work of art concentrates a view of the human condition; and sometimes it marks the steps of progression, just as a man climbing the dark stairs of a medieval tower assures himself by the changing sights glimpsed through its narrow windows that he is getting somewhere after all.”

Source: Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order

“I thought of the infinitely many points that can divide the space between two human hearts.”

Humans Heart Two Space Divides Human Heart Space Between

Author:Daniel Tammet

“One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans.”

Humans Mean Church Space Terrible Eternity Army Spread Invisible All Time Allies Rooted Time And Space Uneasy Banner Screwtape Letters

Book:Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul

Source: Paved with Good Intentions: A Demon’s Road Map to Your Soul

“The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.”

Humans Doe Values Space Study Special Range Accord Human Society Anthropologists Complementary

Author:Claude Levi-Strauss

“It is not just nature that defies us. Human life is as overwhelming... If we spend time in it [the vast spaces of nature], they may help us to accept more graciously the great, unfathomable events that molest our lives and will inevitably return us to dust.”

Ifs Life Humans May Helping Life Is Space Accepting Our Lives Events Return Dust Human Life Overwhelming End Times Spend Time Unfathomable

Author:Alain de Botton

“Judo has helped me to understand that pictorial space is above all the product of spiritual exercises. Judo is, in fact, the discovery by the human body of a spiritual space.”

Humans Facts Body Spiritual Spirituality Space Products Exercise Discovery Human Body Judo Pictorial

Author:Yves Klein

“When the Eagle landed on the moon, I was speechless—overwhelmed, like most of the world. Couldn't say a word. I think all I said was, 'Wow! Jeez!' Not exactly immortal. Well, I was nothing if not human.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Wells Said Space Moon Immortal Wow Overwhelmed Eagles Apollo Speechless

Author:Walter Cronkite

“The Life we have is very great. The Life that we shall see Surpasses it, we know, because It is Infinity, But when all Space has been beheld And all Dominion shown The smallest Human Heart's extent Reduces it to none.”

Knows Life Humans Heart Has Beens Space Infinity Smallest Human Heart Dominion

Book:Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

“No national sovereignty rules in outer space. Those who venture there go as envoys of the entire human race. Their quest, therefore, must be for all mankind, and what they find should belong to all mankind.”

Should Humans Space Race Mankind Human Race Quests Venture Sovereignty Star Gazing Outer Space National Sovereignty

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966

“I predict the future of this earthly human race is that having made a mess of Earth they'll move to outer space.”

Humans Made Earth Moving Space Race Future Mess Human Race Outer Space Premonition

Author:Leonard Nimoy

“Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.”

Ifs Humans Long Has Beens Space Existence Risk Willing Long Time Essence Curiosity Exploration Humankind Human Existence

Author:Gene Cernan

“Scale is very, very important, like the scale of a person is very important. It's to do with the size of our space, the fact they are big sculptures, they are still human scale.”

Humans Persons Stills Important Facts Bigs Space Size Scales Sculpture

Author:Anthony Caro

“Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed will never exist again in the infinite duration of time. But thou, in what a brief space of time is thy existence? And why art thou not content to pass through this short time in an orderly way?”

Ifs Way Humans Looks Art Space Existence Changed Infinite Smoke Orderly Duration Short Time

Book:The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Source: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

“Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say, wear, buy, and how we enjoy ourselves and who and how we love. Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death. We can use diamonds in whatever way we like. They are empty things, pretty as water, yet within them—if we want to see it—there is blood, dust, love, curses, and suffering. There is desire to make someone happy, there is admiration, there is ostentation…and there is a company’s profit curve.”

“I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Humans Looks Long Earth Universe Term Space Race Planets Human Race Long Term Horizon Inward Planet Earth

Author:Stephen Hawking

“Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.”

Mind Humans Space Wonderful Distance Human Mind Lulls

Book:The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln

Source: The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln