Quotes about Space

Space is the last frontier for humanity. Public organizations such as NASA as well as private industry-leaders such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others push into space. Learn with our curated quotes about their views and approaches to space.

“There’s a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.”

“Boring is good!”

“If only international politics and relations was as easy as rocket science.”

—Scott Manley

“Like a rocket is just a giant engineering compromise, and you just have to choose where you're gonna eat the pain and you can choose it in propulsion. You can choose it in structures. You know, where is the bit that's gonna destroy your life?”

“It was going well until it exploded.”

—Scott Manley

“Archimedes is the boringest engine that we can build in a lot of sense.”

“That always seemed to be the dumbest constraint you can imagine as like the dome of the rocket is set by the lowest bridge between California and Florida.”

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“It's a lot easier to build something bigger than smaller.”

“A rocket is a huge engineering compromise.”

“I wonder how many dead one-planet civilizations are out there in the cosmos that never made it to the other planet and ultimately extinguished themselves or were destroyed by external factors. Probably a few.”

“Humanity has been small. That’s not true anymore. The Earth is no longer big. Humanity is big. Earth seems big to us, but it’s finite.”

“If humanity is to become multi-planetary, the fundamental breakthrough that needs to occur in rocketry is a rapidly and completely reusable rocket … achieving it would be on a par with what the Wright brothers did. It’s the fundamental thing that’s necessary for humanity to become a space-faring civilization. America would never have been colonized if ships weren’t reusable.”

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“I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness, to make sure it continues into the future”

“I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.”

“You need to live in a dome initially, but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.”

“It is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.”

“I think it would be great to be born on Earth and die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact.”

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.”

“We’re going to build a road to space so that our kids and their kids can build the future. And we need to do that. We need to do that to solve the problems here on Earth. It’s not about escaping.”

“We need unifiers, not vilifiers. When you look out at the planet, there are no borders. There’s nothing. It’s one planet and we share it and it’s fragile.”

“We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space. And keep Earth as this beautiful gem of a planet that it is.”