„What good is the race of man? Monkeys, he thought, monkeys with a spot of poetry in them, cluttering and wasting a second-string planet near a third-string star. But sometimes they finish in style.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„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
„there is no planet, sun, or star could hold you if you but knew what you are.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Sky—what a scowl of cloudTill, near and far,Ray on ray split the shroud:Splendid, a star!“
— Robert Browning
„What is magic?There is the wizard's explanation… wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.“
— Terry Pratchett
„I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars.“
— Stephen Hawking