Mars Quotes - Page 20

• America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Men, America

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• Space architectures capable of supporting a permanent human presence on Mars are extraordinarily complex, with many different interdependent systems.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Different, Architecture

  "American Space Exploration Leadership — Why and How" by Buzz Aldrin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• If anything, I believe that when I die, I will have to stand in front of all the children who went to bed hungry while I was on earth and read aloud a list of my eBay purchases. I shudder to think of it. Explaining to a poor child with a swollen belly why I didn't give his village fifty cents a week but spent twenty-seven dollars in a bidding war for a Mars Attacks coffee cup.

  Dana Gould

  Children, War, Coffee

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• Mars is telling us something. I'm not sure what it is because It's speaking martian. But it's telling us something

  Steve Squyres

  Not Sure, Martians

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• What a glorious world Almighty God has given us. How thankless and ungrateful we are, and how we labor to mar his gifts.

  Robert E. Lee

  Ungrateful, World, Almighty

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.33, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• Certainly whatever climate change and global warming means, we've got a big issue here. Right now, this civilization or this period that we're in is probably going to need the resources off our planet, perhaps the resources from the asteroids, perhaps there will be some on the moon, perhaps some on Mars that we can utilize for our own uses here.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Mean, Moon, Civilization

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Undoubtedly we will go on to Mars in due course, provided we don't blow ourselves up with our stupidities in the short run. That's a possibility, too.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Running, Blow, Stupidity

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Mind, Speech

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• Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dry, Earth, May

  Interview with Don Cohen, appel.nasa.gov. June 1, 2008.

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• Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of every eligible voter.

  Andrew Young

  Hands, Land, Cards

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• The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Ice, Melting, Climate Change

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• Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

  Sappho

  Song, Sky, Domes

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• Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of values to another, one life to another. Men must be free from boundaries, patterns and consistencies in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways. Men have admired Prometheus and Mars too long; our God must become Proteus.

  Luke Rhinehart

  Men, Thinking, Order

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• A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time.

  Herbie Brennan

  Thoughtful, Intelligent, Macs

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• Mars is not an aesthetic God.

  John Brown Gordon

  War, Civil War, Aesthetic

  John Brown Gordon (1904). “Reminiscences of the Civil War”

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• The Mars Polar Lander has been quieter than George W. Bush after a foreign policy question.

  David Letterman

  Astronomy, Foreign Policy, Has Beens

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• Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

  Bayard Taylor

  War, Hands, Mountain

  bayard taylor “views a-foot”

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• Calm soul of all things! make it mine To feel, amid the city's jar, That there abides a peace of thine, Man did not make, and cannot mar! The will to neither strive nor cry, The power to feel what others give! Calm, calm me more! nor let me die Before I have begun to live.

  Matthew Arnold

  Peace, Men, Cities

  'Lines written in Kensington Gardens' (1852)

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• Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.

  Bill Kurtis

  South Dakota, Dies, South

  Source: www.npr.org

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• On Mars, the crumbling remains of ancient civilizations may be found, mutely testifying to the one-time glory of a dying world.

  P. E. Cleator

  Civilization, Dying, Crumbling

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• When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Dream, War, Men

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.411

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• In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.

  Paul Davies

  Ideas, Earth, Study

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.

  Gerard K. O'Neill

  Moon, Somewhere Else, Numbers

  "The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space". Book by Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976.

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• O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower.

  Pablo Neruda

  Blessed, Childhood, Our Love

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• Pain and illness, the deaths of those one loves, and discomforts and disappointments mar the happy norm, but they do not alter the fact that happiness is the norm, nor affect the tendency of the continuum to restore it, to heal it, after any disturbance.

  Jean Liedloff

  Happiness, Pain, Disappointment

  Jean Liedloff (1975). “The continuum concept”, Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd

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