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  1. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    The fact had become as invisible to him as someone on Earth thinking about being held to a spinning celestial object by nothing more than mass, shielded from the fusion reaction of the sun by only distance and air.
    book-quotefactspacesun

  2. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence.
    book-quotewarspaceregret

  3. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    The margins of the space were bright without illuminating anything or casting shadows, sharp and terrible. It reminded her of the way schizophrenics and people suffering migraines would describe light as assaulting and dangerous.
    book-quotelightspaceschizophrenia

  4. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    When you organize extraordinary missions, you attract people of extraordinary talent who might not have been inspired by or attracted to the goal of saving the world from cancer or hunger or pestilence.
    book-quotesciencespacenasa

  5. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard-explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.
    book-quotescienceuniversespace

  6. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    The cosmic perspective not only embraces our genetic kinship with all life on Earth but also values our chemical kinship with any yet-to-be discovered life in the universe, as well as our atomic kinship with the universe itself.
    book-quotesciencespacecosmos

  7. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.No judgment implied. Just an observation."
    book-quotescienceuniversespace

  8. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership {which happens to be one-fifth the mass of the Moon}, thus disarming its protective force field. I don't know about you, but back in 1996 I had trouble just uploading files to other computers within my own department, especially when the operating systems were different. There is only one solution: the entire defense system for the alien mothership must have been powered by the same release of Apple Computer's system software as the laptop computer that delivered the virus.
    book-quotefunnyspacecomputers

  9. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ Space Chronicles: Facing the

    Science, enabled by engineering, empowered by NASA, tells us not only that we are in the universe but that the universe is in us. And for me, that sense of belonging elevates, not denigrates, the ego.
    book-quotescienceuniversespace

  10. Neil deGrasse Tyson _ The Sky Is Not the Limit:

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

  11. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.
    book-quotehappinessspace

  12. Gustave Flaubert _ Correspondance

    This sense of my own weakness and emptiness comforts me. I feel myself a mere speck of dust lost in space, yet I am part of that endless grandeur which envelopes me. I could never see why that should be cause for despair, since there could very well be nothing at all behind the black curtain.
    book-quotenothingspaceweakness
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