Space Exploration Quotes

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

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• The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

  H. G. Wells

  Choices, Exploration, Universe

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• God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.

  Pope Pius XII

  Men, Space, Effort

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• To boldly go where no one has gone before

  Stephen Hawking

  Courage, Gone, Cider

  Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking (2009). “George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.151, Best Books on

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• We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Space, Apollo

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

  William Shatner

  Space, Accomplishment, Joy

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• We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

  James Lovelock

  Space, Looks, Earth

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• To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Distance, Moon, Rocks

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• We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

  Wernher von Braun

  Sarcastic, Work, Science

  "On Bureaucracy". "Chicago Sun-Times" Newspaper, July 10, 1958.

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• Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Moving, Responsibility, Space

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• Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

  William S. Burroughs

  Travel, Math, Science

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.85, Arcade Publishing

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  It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eye, Space, Blue

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

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?

  Leonard Nimoy

  Drama, Moon, Men

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• We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dirty, Moving, Eye

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

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• Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

  Bob Barr

  Technology, Yield, Medicine

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• Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

  Randy Forbes

  America, Space, Important

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• Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

  Craig Reucassel

  Thinking, Space, Bombs

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• Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod, The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, - Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.

  John Gillespie Magee, Jr.

  Laughter, Flying High, Hands

  "High Flight". Poem by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., September 3, 1941.

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• If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.

  Carl Sagan

  Responsibility, Sea, Other Worlds

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.337, Ballantine Books

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• The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Race, Eggs, Space

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• And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.

  William Winwood Reade

  Future, Men, Land

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.514

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• Feeling weightless... it's so many things together. A feeling of pride, of healthy solitude, of dignified freedom from everything that's dirty, sticky. You feel exquisitely comfortable... and you feel you have so much energy, such an urge to do things, such an ability to do things. And you work well, yes, you think well, without sweat, without difficulty as if the biblical curse in the sweat of thy face and in sorrow no longer exists, As if you've been born again.

  Wally Schirra

  Dirty, Biblical, Pride

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• Roger, Tranquility. We copy you on the ground. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot.

  Charles Duke

  Blue, Breathing, Guy

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