Space Travel Quotes

• In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, we shall one day travel to the Moon, the planets, and the stars with the same facility, rapidity and certainty as we now make the ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

  Jules Verne

  New York, Stars, Ocean

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• The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Space, Made, Crowded Places

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

  Yuri Gagarin

  Beautiful, Space, Earth

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• Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Responsibility, Men, Space

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• Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it - for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Stars, Race, Space

  "We'll Never Conquer Space" by Arthur C. Clarke, Science Digest, June 1960.

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• The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and unexpected dividends.

  Wernher von Braun

  Years, Space, Pay

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• The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Education, Travel

  "Space All systems go for National Space Day". CNN, May 4, 2000.

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• We cannot predict the new forces, powers, and discoveries that will be disclosed to us when we reach the other planets and set up new laboratories in space. They are as much beyond our vision today as fire or electricity would be beyond the imagination of a fish.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Fire, Discovery, Space

  "Space and the Spirit of Man". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, 1965.

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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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• 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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• I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

  Patrick Troughton

  Thinking, Space, Mind

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

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• When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Travel, Space, Far Away

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.228, Penguin

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• Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

  Edwin Powell Hubble

  Motivational, Travel, Adventure

  Edwin Powell Hubble (1954). “The Nature of Science: And Other Lectures”

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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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  Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

  Wernher von Braun

  Men, Space, Want

  TIME Magazine, February 17, 1958.

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever.

  Ray Bradbury

  Space, Forever, Want

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.153, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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  If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.

  Hermann Oberth

  Goal, World, Life Is

  Hermann Oberth (1957). “Man Into Space: New Projects for Rocket and Space Travel”

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• We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

  John F. Kennedy

  Moon, Challenges, Chill

  Address at Rice University on nation's space effort, Houston, Tex., 12 Sept. 1962

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• We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

  Burt Rutan

  Dream, Travel, Fun

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• I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Unique, Opportunity, Space

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• Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, Space, Forever

  "The Outline of History". Book by H. G. Wells, Ch. 41, 1920.

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• If you don't know where you're going any road will do

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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