Top 90 Space Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind – every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.”

— John Glenn

52. “This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.”

— Isaac Newton

53. “Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.”

— Annie Jump Cannon

54. “Ground control to Major Tom.”

— David Bowie

55. “Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.”

— William S. Burroughs

56. “There’s a starman waiting in the sky, he’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds.”

— David Bowie

57. “The stars don’t look bigger, but they do look brighter.”

— Sally Ride

58. “I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”

— Sarah Williams

59. “When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it’s the beginning of time.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

60. “Not only are we in the universe, the universe is in us. I don’t know of any deeper spiritual feeling than what that brings upon me.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

61. “The Universe is a grand book which cannot be read until one first learns to comprehend the language and becomes familiar with the characters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics.”

— Galileo Galilei

62. “We want to be first; not first if, not first but; but first!”

— John F. Kennedy

63. “The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

— Carl Sagan

64. “The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

— Carl Sagan

65. “We are made of star-stuff. Our bodies are made of star-stuff. There are pieces of star within us all.”

— Carl Sagan

66. “You are the universe experiencing itself.”

— Alan Watts

67. “Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”

— Carl Sagan

68. “Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

— Gene Roddenberry

69. “I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

— Neil Armstrong

70. “Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”

— Carl Sagan

71. “The Moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

72. “The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn’t have a space program.”

— Larry Niven

73. “We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still.”

— Carl Sagan

74. “We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

— Stephen Hawking

75. “The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”

— Carl Sagan

76. “Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!”

— Yuri Gagarin

77. “The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

— Carl Sagan

78. “I think of space not as the final frontier but as the next frontier. Not as something to be conquered but to be explored.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

79. “Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.”

— Buzz Aldrin

80. “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

— Bill Watterson

81. “Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will seem to them incredible that there was ever anybody who doubted the value of space and wanted to turn his or her back on the Universe.”

— Isaac Asimov

82. “I could either watch it happen or be a part of it.”

— Elon Musk

83. “When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried.”

— Alan Shepard

84. “Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine. ”

— Arthur Stanley Eddington

85. “Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.”

— Carl Sagan

86. “Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.”

— Ron Garan

87. “All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.”

— Carl Sagan

88. “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

— Carl Sagan

89. “If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.”

— Krafft Arnold Ehricke

90. “Mars is there, waiting to be reached.”

— Buzz Aldrin

91. “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 chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

— Douglas Adams

92. “If humanity doesn’t land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.”

— Elon Musk

93. “The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”

— Carl Sagan