Space and Time being flexible sounds unfamiliar. ibid.
The secret to gravity lay in the nature of Space/Time ... It’s the warping of Space/Time caused by the objects within it. ibid.
Particles are constantly popping in and out of existence. They erupt out of nothingness, quickly annihilate each other and disappear. ibid.
A whole zoo of strange and exotic particles. ibid.
1964: Peter Higgs suggested something about space so radical it almost ruined him. ibid.
There’s something that fills space and counteracts the pull of ordinary attractive gravity. ibid.
So in essence the weight of empty space itself is 70% of the weight of the entire universe. ibid.
The astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered the universe is not static; it's expanding due to the explosive force of the Big Bang fourteen billion years ago. ibid.
Should we make contact or not? Dara O’Briain’s Science Club IV, BBC 2012
In the 1920s space pioneer Robert Goddard invented liquid fuel rockets. ibid.
The gloves: a mould of the astronaut’s hand is taken to ensure a tight fit. ibid.
The International Space Station now has toilets. ibid.
The Rockwell Integrated Space Plan (Preliminary) Version 1.1 February 1989 by Ronald Jones. ibid.
The gradual weakening of bone and muscle. ibid.
Astrobiologists believe we will detect life on other worlds within the next few decades. And it’s probably reasonable to assume that Natural Selection as an evolutionary driver is a universal principle. ibid.
For three and a half decades they've been investigating the outer reaches of our solar system. They are the Voyagers. Voyager: To the Final Frontier, BBC 2013
Two unmanned space probes ... Mission: to explore the outer planets of the Solar System. ibid.
ASA Kennedy Space Center 28th January 1986: Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known. The Challenger 2013 starring William Hurt & Bruce Greenwood & Joanne Whalley & Kevin McNally & Henry Goodman & Eve Best & Brian Dennegy et al, director James Hawes, Feynman lecture
Science teaches us what the rules of evidence are. ibid.
You can use the science to cut through the bullshit. ibid. General
He [Feynman] died of cancer in February 1988. ibid.
I’m coming back in … and it’s the saddest moment of my life. Ed White, first American spacewalk Gemini 4 mission 3 June 1965
I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. Neil Armstrong, looking back to Earth from Moon July 1969
In my own view, the important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that humanity is not for ever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited. Neil Armstrong, press conference 1999
Perhaps it won’t matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny. Neil Armstrong, Out of This World, Saturday Review 1974
From out there on the Moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’ Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, People magazine 8th April 1974
We have your satellite. If you want it back send 20 billion in Martian money. No funny business or you will never see it again. Graffiti reportedly written on wall at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab 1999 after loss of Mars Polar Lander
OK, Houston, we’ve had a problem here. John Swigert, Apollo 13, explosion of oxygen tank 13th April 1970
If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time. Bertrand Russell
This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Henry David Thoreau, Walden
This is a present from a small distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts, and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. We hope someday, having solved the problems we face, to join a community of galactic civilizations. This record represents our hope and our determination, and our good will in a vast and awesome universe. Jimmy Carter
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then. Blaise Pascal
The eternal silence of these infinite spaces makes me afraid. Blaise Pascal
At night, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space. Natalie Wood
Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet’s relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving. Gene Roddenberry, Planetary Report I 1981
The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity. William E Burrows, The Wall Street Journal 2003
There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years? Isaac Asimov
If [the earth] goes, we go. And so we should go elsewhere, so that when the earth goes, we have another place to go. And while we’re at it, we should take our pets and plants too. We wouldn’t want to be without them, just as they wouldn’t want to be without us – even if they don’t know it. It’s our job to know things, and to act accordingly. And if we fail at that mission, then we really will have failed in upholding our end of the Burkean bargain – that is, partnering not only with the living and the dead, but with those who are yet to be born. James Pinkerton, The Ultimate Lifeboat 2006
Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race. Robert Heinlein, speech World Science Fiction Convention 1961
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies – big business and big government – are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked, but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long. Timothy Leary, Neuropolitics 1977
The eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding ... I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours. John F Kennedy, speech Rice University 1962