“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.” ThinkingHumansSpaceEmotionalInvolvedHighestLowsFlightEndeavorLowestSpace Flight Author:Ellen Ochoa
“That's what we want to do here at Johnson Space Center. I think what we have always brought to NASA and brought to the country is trying to push the boundaries, trying to go to the next level.” ThinkingWantTryingCountryNextSpaceLevelsBoundariesJohnsonNasaNext Level Author:Ellen Ochoa
“Well, with so many space shuttle missions that we've done, I think it's just sort of natural that each one hasn't necessarily gotten the attention that the early ones did.” ThinkingWellsDoneNaturalSpaceAttentionMissionsSpace Shuttle 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.” ThinkingHumansNatureSpaceQualityCriticalSavingWelfareQuality Of LifeWildlifeOpen SpacesWildlife ConservationAnimal Conservation Author:Jim Fowler
“With everything that I design, from a church to a plate to skyscraper to a spoon. I am always thinking about voluptuous volumes and spaces.” ThinkingChurchSpaceDesignPlatesVolumeSpoonsAlways ThinkingSkyscraperVoluptuous Author:Greg Lynn
“Work takes up a lot of my brain space. So when I work, it's one thing. I don't have a lot of time to think about dating.” ThinkingSpaceBrainOne ThingDatingWorking ItTime To Think Author:Chris Pine
“I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.” ThinkingTryingImportantBodyTermCan DoSpaceFiguresBehaviorUniqueBonesDataPreservesMusclesMeasuringDensity Author:John L. Phillips
“Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.” ThinkingBigsMotherLeftFeltSidesSpaceEffectsHugeFilledHoles Author:Imelda Staunton
“We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous, more general the word, the more they can also resemble rooms or tunnels. They can expand, or cave in. They can come to be filled with a bad smell. They will often remind us of other rooms, where we'd rather dwell or where we think we are already living. They can be spaces we lose the art or the wisdom of inhabiting. And eventually those volumes of mental intention we no longer know how to inhabit will be abandoned, boarded up, closed down.” ThinkingKnowsWritingMeanArtRealityLosesSpaceRoomsKnow HowFilledIntentionSmellStuckRoughAbandonedVolumeCavesArrowsTunnelsMean Words Author:Susan Sontag
“As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.” ThinkingMindBodySpacePathWonderfulSubjectsWalkingGenderI RealizedPursueMarchUrbanDemonstrationParadesUrban Life Author:Rebecca Solnit
“I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust?” ThinkingKindLittlesIdeasEndsSpaceDistanceLeavingAccomplishDustHauntingSolar SystemRealisationSlow Motion Author:Regina Spektor
“I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.” ThinkingWorldImportantHardBigsFilmDiesNextStarsSpaceFantasyGenerationsFansGrewGrew UpOriginalsNineCinemaSci FiNext GenerationDeep Space Author:Olivia Thirlby
“I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote watershed and then hauled halfway round the world bothers me. Drinking bottled water relieves people of their concern about ecological threats to the river they live by or to the basins of groundwater they live over. It's the same kind of thinking that leads some to the complacent conclusion that if things on earth get bad enough, well, we'll just blast off to a space station somewhere else.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWellsKindIdeasEnoughBigsEarthWaterSpaceConcernRiversThreatDrinkingEnvironmentalRoundsConclusionBotherOver ItLive ByStationsSomewhere ElseHalfwayBlastEcologicalComplacentDrinking WaterPurchasingWatershedsBottled WaterTap WaterGroundwater Author:Sandra Steingraber
“I think the answer of course is that space and time are not these hard external objects. Again we're, scientists have been building from one side of nature (physics) without considering the other side (life in consciousness). Neither side exists without the other. They cannot be divorced from one another or else there is no reality.” ThinkingHas BeensHardRealityCoursesSidesSpaceAnswersConsciousnessObjectsBuildingScientistPhysicsConsideringTime And SpaceDivorced Author:Robert Lanza