Mars Quotes - Page 3

• I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Science, Fiction, Imagine

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• Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

  John L. Phillips

  Guy, Needs, Littles

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• Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Wells, Stills

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

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• I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.

  Neil Innes

  Girl, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Richie Unterberger, www.furious.com. January 2001.

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• I'm not recognized very often, and if I am, it's a die-hard Veronica Mars fan. Which is usually flattering and an honor. I really try not to think about it.

  Kristen Bell

  Thinking, Honor, Trying

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• This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Precious Stones, Paradise On Earth

  'Richard II' (1595) act 2, sc. 1, l. 40

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• May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue of that planet, which is noticeable by the naked eye, and which led the ancients to personify it as a warrior?

  Camille Flammarion

  Eye, Warrior, Science

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• The star [Tycho's supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, War, Science

  "Patrick Moore's Data Book of Astronomy". p. 336, 2011.

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• We're going to leave this planet at some point further than we have, we're going to go beyond the moon, we're going to go to mars. We all kind of know that on some level, I think actually. So there's an inevitability to human evolution, this being the next step.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Moon, Thinking, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• [On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back.

  Stephen Hawking

  Jobs, Stupid, Science

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

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• Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.

  Johannes Kepler

  Morning, Stars, Lying

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• If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

  Bill Nye

  Moon, People, Orbit

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• So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

  Johannes Kepler

  Science, Differences, Path

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• I wol yow telle, as was me taught also,
  The foure spirites and the bodies sevene,
  By ordre, as ofte I herde my lord hem nevene.
  The firste spirit quiksilver called is,
  The second orpiment, the thridde, ywis,
  Sal armoniak, and the firthe brimstoon.
  The bodies sevene eek, lo! hem heer anoon:
  Sol gold is, and Luna silver we threpe,
  Mars yron, Mercurie quiksilver we clepe,
  Saturnus leed, and Jupiter is tin,
  And Venus coper, by my fader kin!

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Science, Moon, Iron

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• We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And the fascination generated by further exploration will inspire our young people to study math, and science, and engineering and create a new generation of innovators and pioneers.

  George W. Bush

  Dream, Math, Science

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• When we set out to land people on the surface of Mars, I think we should as a nation, as a world, commit ourselves to supporting a growing settlement and colonization there. To visit a few times and then withdraw would be an unforgivable waste of resources.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Land, People

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• Never had much faith in love or miracles, Never wanna put my heart on the line

  Bruno Mars

  Heart, Miracle, Lines

  Song: Locked Out Of Heaven, Album: Unorthodox Jukebox, 2012

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• I want to make rockets 100 times, if not 1,000 times better. The ultimate objective is to make humanity a multiplanet species. Thirty years from now, there'll be a base on the moon and on Mars, and people will be going back and forth on SpaceX rockets.

  Elon Musk

  Future, Moon, Years

  "Elon Musk is betting his fortune on a mission beyond earth's orbit" by Carl Hoffman, www.wired.com. May 22, 2007.

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• Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky.

  John Noble

  Eye, Night, Sky

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• If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

  Tom Peters

  Eras, Flaws, Failing

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• I'd send Christina Aguilera to Mars cos she'd scare all the aliens!

  Lee Ryan

  Scare, Aliens, Christina

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• If you asked a sample of Americans "What is the temperature of Mars?" about 8% would say they don't know.

  Herbert Stein

  Temperature, Sample, Knows

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• Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming.

  Sally Ride

  Future, Moon, Thinking

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• I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.

  Charles Bolden

  Growing Up, Future, Bucks

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• Long-term, I see robotics prevailing on the moon. . . . The most important decision we'll have to make about space travel is whether to commit to a permanent human presence on Mars. Without it, we'll never be a true space-faring people.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Future, Moon, Space

  FaceBook post by Buzz Aldrin from Nov 22, 2009

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