Jon Krakauer Quotes

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

I said it's a cold universe and I don't mean that metaphorically. If you go out into space, it's cold. It's really cold and we don't know what's up there. We happen to be in this little pocket where there's a sun. What have we got except love and each other to guard against all that isolation and loneliness?

The sky above us is something we have very little control of, and the space beyond is something we don't completely understand.

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.

I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

The space walks were amazing with the incredible views.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

Space felt like home.

Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored.

What is a fantasy map but a space beyond which There Be Dragons?

We're in space and space is the place!

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

I'd love to go back to space, I don't know any astronaut who doesn't want to.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

I always knew I'd go to space.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

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.