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" We continue to not only operate the International Space Station but to increase its capabilities as well as commercial contributions. "

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" We have never observed infinity in nature. Whenever you have infinities in a theory, that's where the theory fails as a description of nature. And if space was born in the Big Bang, yet is infinite now, we are forced to believe that it's instantaneously, infinitely big. It seems absurd. "

" Being an astronaut is a wonderful career. I feel very privileged. But what I really hope for young people is that they find a career they're passionate about, something that's challenging and worthwhile. "

" You can only really hear the beat of your own drum if you give yourself the space to sit in it. "

" That great Cathedral space which was childhood. "

" I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the music on my own, free from unwanted conversations and other distractions. "

" The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction. "

Gregory Benford

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" 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. "

" I feel like the quality of privacy and respect of people's personal space has been completely disintegrated. You can ask to take the picture. I will be so glad to take the picture and pose and look good for the picture. "

" I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room. "

Ellsworth Kelly

" You have to say now that space is something. Space can vibrate, space can fluctuate, space can be quantum mechanical, but what the devil is it? "

Leonard Susskind

" If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen? "

" 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. "

" Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink. "

" Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time. "

Guglielmo Marconi

" Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. "

Marshall McLuhan

" When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it. "

" Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus. "

Johannes Kepler

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

" We have this yearning to know the answers to the big questions about space and why we're here; we can't evolve fast enough to figure these answers out on our own, but we can do it through artificial intelligence. But there's also some very scary downsides that could come if we don't put the right safety precautions in there. "

" People are always invading your personal space on set, especially on 'The Walking Dead.' "

" I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone. "

" We don't have parades for mathematicians, we have parades for astronauts. You don't think about all the thousands of people who worked on that capsule and crunched the numbers and were integral in getting that into space. "

" I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class. "

" Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there. "

Barbara Walters

" The existence of symmetry laws is in full accordance with our daily experience. The simplest of these symmetries, the isotropy and homogeneity of space, are concepts that date back to the early history of human thought. "

" I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on. "

" Don't even try to talk to me when I'm watching the moon. That's my moon, baby. "

Wendelin Van Draanen

" For NASA, space is still a high priority. "

" It's not about having a plethora of suits, but having a few good ones. It's all about fit. The contour of your body. If your shoulders are broad, you shouldn't have shoulder pads. If you're not a big man, you shouldn't have extra space. I think it's definitely worth having it properly fitted. "

" Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them. "

Katherine Johnson