Mars Quotes - Page 12

• I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

  Alan Shepard

  Pride, Apollo, Excitement

  "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.

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• I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Fun, Holiday, Sadness

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• In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

  Mary Roach

  People, Young, Importance

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• There are people who would love to spend their last ten years, or five years, or whatever it is, on the surface of Mars.

  Mary Roach

  Years, People, Lasts

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• The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Tired

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The year 1999, seventh month, [or simply "sept"] From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Years

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• The first human beings to land on Mars should not come back to Earth. They should be the beginning of a build-up of a colony/settlement, I call it a 'permanence'.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Land, Earth, Firsts

  "Ask Me Anything" with Buzz Aldrin, www.reddit.com.

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• It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

  Harrison Schmitt

  Parent, Live For Today, Alive

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• Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

  Isaac Watts

  May, Speak, Harsh

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• I would say that failure to terraform Mars constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself

  Robert Zubrin

  Betrayal, Responsibility, Community

  Robert Zubrin (2012). “The Case For Mars”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• The White Mars [project] is a bold move that will add significantly to our understanding of how to deal with the challenge of human exploration of the Red Planet.

  Robert Zubrin

  Moving, White, Understanding

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• The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.

  David Grinspoon

  Long, Invasion, Telescopes

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• About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

  James Nicoll

  People, Stories, Firsts

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• The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Way, Ancient, Destruction

  Joseph Wood Krutch, Bern Dibner (1988). “The colloid and the crystal”

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• The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Children, Home

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics”, p.175, Booklassic

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• Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.

  Chris Abani

  Years, Land, Waiting

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• Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that could be harmed by the human hubbub, life does not already exist there. If not, then by all means build cities, plant forests and fill lakes and streams with trout -- bring life to Mars and Mars to life. We'll then be the Martians we've been dreaming about for all these years.

  David Grinspoon

  Dream, Mean, Lakes

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• No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

  Samuel Rutherford

  Inspiring, Music, Christian

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.88

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• Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Rocks, People, Decision

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• Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Atheism, Orbit

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• In my mind, public space travel will precede efforts toward exploration -- be it returning to the moon, going to Mars, visiting asteroids, or whatever seems appropriate. We've got millions and millions of people who want to go into space, who are willing to pay. When you figure in the payload potential of customers, everything changes.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Space, People

  "Buzz Aldrin: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. August 25, 2012.

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• What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.52, National Geographic Books

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• So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on New Girl, and what my experience on Veronica Mars was like. Everybody was just so great.

  Max Greenfield

  Girl, Strong, People

  "Max Greenfield on his current role on New Girl and his Veronica Mars history". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2012.

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• There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always
  comes to mar our joys.

  Ovid

  Simple, Joy, Care

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• A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.

  Herman Melville

  War, Would Be, Purpose

  Herman Melville (2006). “Billy Budd, Sailor, and Other Stories”, p.75, Bantam Classics

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