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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!
Star Trek, Original Series
The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by the knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the Universe come from Earth. They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will love it no less for its obscurity and fragility. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross before we found our way.
Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Congratulations on the new library, because it is''t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you ‐ and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
Isaac Asimov
As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
The last ever dolphin message was misinterpreted as a surprisingly sophisticated attempt to do a double‐backwards‐somersault through a hoop whilst whistling the 'Star Spangled Banner', but in fact the message was this: 'So long and thanks for all the fish. '
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
2001 A Space Odyssey, Richard Strauss
Gustav Holst ‐The Planets, Edward Gardner, National Youth Orchestra
The Purple People Eater, Sheb Wooley