Vanna Bonta Quotes

I've nothing against eye make-up and lipstick. But the fact is that we’re actually living on a planet in space. For me that’s an extraordinary thought. It’s mind-boggling just to think about the existence of space at all. But there are girls who can’t see the universe for eye liner.

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

It's always a combination of physics and poetry that I find inspiring. It's hard to wrap your head around things like the Hubble scope.

Nature hasn't gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.

The universe is a great mystery.

There are still so many questions to answer. When you look at any part of the universe, you have to feel humbled.

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

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

Science sent the Hubble telescope out into space, so it could capture light and the absence thereof, from the very beginning of time. And the telescope really did that. So now we know that there was once absolutely nothing, such a perfect nothing that there wasn't even nothing or once.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.

There's a bigger universe at hand.

I don't think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

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'll go out at night and look up at the stars and think, 'How ridiculously inconsequential I am in the scheme of things.'

To help enable the kind of science Hubble is performing makes my life worthwhile.

Hubble showed us the marvel and majesty of stars being born.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

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

Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.

...and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.