Nick Sagan Quotes

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it.

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.

My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

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.

There are a lot of things you can do in space, and space essentially is unlimited resources. We are climbing over ourselves here looking for the next source of energy. The universe has an unlimited source of energy.

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.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

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.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.

There's a world of insights to be gained into human health and disease by understanding how gravity and space radiation influence biology.

You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.

When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'

The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.

Something people don't recognize is that being on the space station is probably a lot like being in some kind of confinement - like isolation.

Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.

There is no stronger case for the motivational power of real science than the discoveries that come from the Hubble Space Telescope as it unravels the mysteries of the universe.

When you look at the darkest areas in space, you feel that there's something out there that we don't know about.

Absolutely the most fun thing to do in space and rewarding thing, in many ways, is to look back at planet Earth.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community.

If they asked me if I wanted to go into space tomorrow, I'd do it in a heartbeat. On the other hand, if they asked me if I wanted to go into training for three years and then go into space again, I'd probably say no.

So we say, oh, my goodness; we think we've found another Earth-like planet. We will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.