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“It is for this reason that we find that co-existence, which could neither be in time alone, for time has no contiguity, nor in space alone, for space has no before, after, or now, is first established through matter.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation
“There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“Across the sea of space the stars are other suns.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“Through hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something nor nothing, one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the interval between two neighboring instants of time.” Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought—particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things.” Woody Allen, Side Effects
“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine
“By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos
“The mind . . . entertains the idea of limitless, through the greater difficulty which it finds in entertaining that of limited, space.” Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.” Blaise Pascal, Pensées
“We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it...” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.” Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot
“Are you sure we can move freely in Space? Right and left we can go, backward and forward freely enough, and men always have done so. I admit we move freely in two dimensions. But how about up and down? Gravitation limits us there.” H. G. Wells, The Time Machine

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