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"Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out."
"The world of visual perspective is one of unified and homogeneous space. Such a world is alien to the resonating diversity of spoken words. So language was the last art to accept the visual logic of Gutenberg technology, and the first to rebound in the electric age."
"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."
"By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through."
"This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place."
"And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars."
"Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters, they are often more afraid. What is more, those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters. For without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude through our own apathy."
"Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination"
"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is."
"The war was won on both sides: by the Vietnamese on the ground, by the Americans in the electronic mental space. And if the one side won an ideological and political victory, the other made Apocalypse Now and that has gone right around the world."
"There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world."
"Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym."
"The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers."
"Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once."
"I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened."
"The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist."
"Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system."
"Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you."
"The space within becomes the reality of the building."
"Ben Affleck (who plays A.J. Frost) and I got to actually go into the neutral buoyancy tank in actual $10 million spacesuits the astronauts wear in outer space, and that was pretty interesting"
