Cillian Murphy Quotes

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

If you go down through the horizon of a black hole, at the center you don't find a tunnel that leads you to some other place in the universe.

Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.

There are many in the field of cosmology, who believe as I do, that finding ways to travel great distances will be essential to keeping human kind alive in an aging universe.

I'm still amazed at how the universe works.

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

There is no limit to what astrophysicists can do. We can be very curious.

Space, the whole universe - I know no better place to find new physics.

It bears mentioning that the Milky Way is only one of 150 billion galaxies visible to our telescopes - and each of these will have its own complement of planets.

I always think of space-time as being the real substance of space, and the galaxies and the stars just like the foam on the ocean.

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

Thinking about the universe has now been handed over to specialists. The rest of us merely read about it.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

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.

I've always been fascinated by physics and cosmology. It gets more and more scary the older you get.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

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.

While human space travel is daunting, machines - with their indefinitely long lifetimes - could travel the galaxy. It might make little difference to them that bridging the distance from one star to the next could take hundreds of thousands of years or more.

I think the universe is just so big that there has to be something else out there.

Scientists say, 'There is no such thing as time; gravity is a dust from another universe, and outside our own universe are many, many universes in all directions.' They speculate that attached to these universes are probably 6,000 planets identical to Earth. So are there things living out there? Animals, people, anything?

It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up worm holes into entire new universes.

I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.

The universe is a great mystery.