Tsiolkovsky Quotes & Sayings

your greatest hurt will probably be your greatest ministry. — Holley Gerth

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

All our knowledge - past, present, and future - is nothing compared to what we will never know. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Mankind will not forever remain on Earth but, in the pursuit of light and space, will first timidly emerge from the bounds of the atmosphere and then advance until he has conquered the whole of circumsolar space. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not; for it is to think one knows what one does not know. No man knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessing for a human being; and yet people fear it as if they knew for certain that is is the greatest of evil. (Socrates in The Apology) — Plato

From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot remain in the cradle forever. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Tsiolkovsky wrote: The Earth is the cradle of mankind. But one does not live in the cradle forever. — Carl Sagan

Service is the joy-giving factor in daily life. It is as spontaneous as light, as subtle as electricity, as exhilarating as sunshine. It exists primarily as a spiritual attitude. It lies in the constant recognition of the brotherhood of humanity toward each and all with whom we come in contact. — Lilian Whiting

The Earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind cannot stay in the cradle forever. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

When one door opens, so does another one. — A.C.H. Smith

For me, a rocket is only a means
only a method of reaching the depths of space
and not an end in itself ... There's no doubt that it's very important to have rocket ships since they will help mankind to settle elsewhere in the universe. But what I'm working for is this resettling ... The whole idea is to move away from the Earth to settlements in space. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The world is desperately imperfect. Even if a quarter of the working people were engrossed in new thoughts and inventions and lived off the others, humanity would still gain tremendously thanks to the constant stream of inventions and intellectual work emerging from this horde of people striving upward. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

What about Alice? Did she have a happy ending? — Christina Henry

Your lady's necklace?" Cecily said. "Well, I confess it does not suit you." He stepped toward Cecily and drew the glittering chain over her dark head. The ruby fell against her throat as if it were made for her. — Cassandra Clare

He hadn't saved her. He hadn't even bothered trying. — Tan Redding

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

I do not remember how it got into my head to make the first calculations related to rocket. It seems to me the first seeds were planted by famous fantaseour, J. Verne. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people. — Richard Branson

Most of my money remains in England, although my unworthy carcass may not under usual circumstances ... — Kellyn Roth

Every day you should be doing right what you recognized as wrong the day before. Obviously. — Jedidiah James Brown

All the universe is full of the lives of perfect creatures. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

From the rocket we can see the huge sphere of the planet in one or another phase of the Moon. We can see how the sphere rotates, and how within a few hours it shows all its sides successively ... and we shall observe various points on the surface of the Earth for several minutes and from different sides very closely. This picture is so majestic, attractive and infinitely varied that I wish with all my soul that you and I could see it. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The blue distance, the mysterious Heavens, the example of birds and insects flying everywhere - are always beckoning Humanity to rise into the air. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it in a continuous flow, the elasticity of the gas pushing its particles into space will continuously push the cask itself. The result will a continuous change in the motion of the cask. Given a sufficient number of taps (say, six), we would be able to regulate the outflow of the gas as we liked and the cask (or sphere) would describe any curved line in accordance with any law of velocities. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. — Nicolas Cage

Madonna is the true feminist. She exposes the puritanism and suffocating ideology of American feminism, which is stuck in an adolescent whining mode. Madonna has taught young women to be fully female and sexual while still exercising control over their lives. — Camille Paglia

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more. — Will.i.am