Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Quotes

#1. Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.

Veronica Roth

#2. If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.

Eve Best

#3. A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#4. You have no control over other people's taste, so focus on staying true to your own.

Tim Gunn

#5. Slowing down reminds you that the journey is supposed to be fun.

Anne Bancroft

#6. There is never much to be feared for anyone that is born with sense and truth in him, whatever else he may have or want.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

#7. Run and hide. We're on our way.

Scott Westerfeld

#8. Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#9. The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere - are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#10. Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

Ingrid Betancourt

#11. Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#12. In the world in which we live, truth is an ancillary virtue, but it shouldn't be.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#13. The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#14. From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#15. First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#16. Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#17. Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#18. That which is most personal, is most interesting.

William James

#19. I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

Sylvester Stallone

#20. I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#21. My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#22. Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Francis Bacon

#23. All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#24. Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#25. All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

#26. Democracy works when people claim it as their own

Bill Moyers