Interstellar Space Quotes

#1. Having created these cognitively enhanced creatures, the safest option at the time appeared to be to launch them into interstellar space.

Alastair Reynolds

#2. There are many unidentified bands in the spectra of stars. Wide bands are produced by some complex molecules in the interstellar space.

Garik Israelian

#3. Scrape the surface of language, and you will behold interstellar space and the skin that encloses it.

Velimir Khlebnikov

#4. Once every hundred years, the Los Angeles smog rolls away for a single night, leaving the air as clean as interstellar space. That way the gods can see if Los Angeles is still there. If it is, they roll the smog back so they won't have to look at it.

Larry Niven

#5. Cut off from contact with the outer world, and with the past, the citizen of Oceania is like a man in interstellar space, who has no way of knowing which direction is up and which is down. The rulers of such a state are absolute, as the Pharaohs or the Caesars could not be.

George Orwell

#6. And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit, leaving you alone flying above a forgotten cloud bank, somewhere in the solitude of interstellar space.

Charles Lindbergh

#7. Here is this three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can contemplate the vastness of interstellar space. It can contemplate the meaning of infinity and it can contemplate itself contemplating on the meaning of infinity.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

#8. A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence ... It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.

Carl Sagan

#9. 'Interstellar' may never equal the blast of scientific speculation and cinematic revelation that was Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' but its un-Earthly vistas are spectral and spectacular.

Richard Corliss

#10. If you love epic space opera, you shouldn't miss 'Interstellar'.

Annalee Newitz

#11. We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return.

S.K. Tremayne

#12. Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.

Frank Tipler

#13. Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design.

Martin Rees