Sunita Williams Quotes

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

The universe is a great mystery.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

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.

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.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by 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.

We are living through a remarkably privileged era, when certain deep truths about the cosmos are still within reach of the human spirit of exploration.

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

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

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

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

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

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.

Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.

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