No amount of standing on hilltops on dark nights and surveying the heavens could prepare a man for the actuality of space travel, because the earthbound observer saw only the the stars, not what separated them. They glittered in his vision, filling his eyes, and he had no choice but to assign them a position of importance in the cosmic scheme. The space traveler saw things differently. He was made aware that the universe consisted of emptiness, that the suns and nebulae were almost an irrelevancy, that the stars were nothing more than a whiff of gas diffusing into infinity. And sooner or later that knowledge began to hurt. Bob Shaw
You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.
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Samuel Beckett
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of...
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Carl Sagan
There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.
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Octavia E. Butler
To respect a mystery is to make way for the answer.
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Criss Jami
I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
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No amount of standing on hilltops on dark nights and surveying the heavens could prepare a man for the actuality of space travel, because the earthbound observer saw only the the stars, not what separated them. They glittered in his vision, filling his eyes, and...
