Sunita Williams Quotes

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

I am very interested in the Universe - I am specialising in the Universe and all that surrounds it.

I'm an avid watcher of the Nat Geo channel, where I watch shows about how the planets are formed, and shows about moons, quasars, black holes.

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.

My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

Space is really domain expansion.

Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large.

I want Carl Sagan to explain the sky to me.

I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist.' And then they'd walk away real quickly.

I only watch National Geographic Channel, and also I have the app on my phone. I'm into astronomy and love to learn about new facts.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

To primitive man, the sky was wonderful, mysterious and awesome, but he could not even dream of what was within the golden disk or silver points of light so far beyond his reach.

Do not look at stars as bright spots only. Try to take in the vastness of the universe.

People are fascinated about the world above them because it seems so out-of-reach.

One of the things I do know is we know very little about our universe. Even though we think we know a lot, and we do know a lot more than we used to, we have a lot to learn about our universe.

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations.

You see billions and billions of stars and recognize that you know some of those have planets, too, and maybe there's life out there, and this is just one of billions of galaxies... and so it gives you this huge perspective of how far we potentially have to go for real exploration.

I've always been consumed by things that are out of this world, like space and moons.

I actually believe more in outer space in Virginia, because I can look up at the sky and count the stars.