Jim Lovell Quotes

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

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

Man must rise above the Earth -- to the top of the atmosphere and beyond -- for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there's life out there, and this is just one of billions of galaxies... and so it gives you this huge perspective of how far we potentially have to go for real exploration.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

I'm really into space. When I was four years old, I used to pray to the stars and look at the moon.

The first inspiration I ever had was the cosmos, the planetary system.

Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had a little crumpled thought, 'Oh well, the moon. It's just another place like California.' One's imagination drags its feet as we are inexorably hauled into the future.

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

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

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

'Earth' is a silly name for this planet.