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" Psychology is still trying to explain the perception of the position of an object in space, along with its shape, size, and so on, and to understand the sensations of color. "

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" Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception. "

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" My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind. "

" To most people in the U.K., indeed throughout Western Europe, space exploration is primarily perceived as 'what NASA does'. This perception is - in many respects - a valid one. Superpower rivalry during the Cold War ramped up U.S. and Soviet space efforts to a scale that Western Europe had no motive to match. "

" I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth. "

" The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible? "

" If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. "

" What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text. "

" The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought. "

" It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. "

" Space is to place as eternity is to time. "

" I'm really impressed every time Kanye comes to perform at 'SNL' because he finds a new way to make that space work for him. "

" If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely. "

" Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world. "

" But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time. "

Patrick Geddes

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Place

" That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is. "

" People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem. "

" I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories. "

" An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. "

" I love horror movies in space. I love it when the genre switches over and what was sci-fi becomes horror. "

" That great Cathedral space which was childhood. "

" It seems that 'rocket scientist' is a job category that's here for the long haul, like 'mortician.' But all this activity masks an important point: rockets are not a terribly efficient way to lift things into space. "

" There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot. "

" On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. "

" My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments. "

" A mechanical encounter or other energy-exchange may cause tissue damage. "

" I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. "

" Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space. "

" The purpose of going to Mars is for humans to first begin to occupy, permanently, another planet in the solar system. The astronauts or pilgrims, whatever you might call them, are going to be very historically unique human beings. "

" You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself. "