Star Gazing Quotes - Page 4

• A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future of human civilization depends on the receipt of interstellar messages.

  Carl Sagan

  Moon, Space, Civilization

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• Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as a matter of course. And if the idea is accepted that the world's resources are fixed, then each person is ultimately the enemy of every other person, and each race or nation is the enemy of every other race or nation. The extreme result is tyranny, war and even genocide. Only in a universe of unlimited resources can all men be brothers.

  Robert Zubrin

  Brother, War, Moon

  Robert Zubrin (2012). “The Case For Mars”, p.331, Simon and Schuster

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• Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.

  Willy Ley

  Space, Trying, Substance

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• Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

  Ovid

  Eye, Men, Sky

  Ovid, “Metamorphoses: Book The First”

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• We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Journey, Space, Appointments

  Yvonne Fern, Gene Roddenberry (1996). “Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation : A Dialogue With the Creator of Star Trek”, Star Trek

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• The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.

  Scott Carpenter

  Views, Space, Flight

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

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• You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Space, Appreciate, Wish

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• During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending our technological flocks, but like the shepherds of old, we will keep our eyes fixed on the heavens.

  Jimmy Carter

  Home, Eye, Space

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

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• The second best thing about space travel is that the distances involved make war very difficult, usually impractical, and almost always unnecessary. This is probably a loss for most people, since war is our race's most popular diversion, one which gives purpose and color to dull and stupid lives. But it is a great boon to the intelligent man who fights only when he must-never for sport.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sports, War, Distance

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

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• We want to explore. We're curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore ... We believe in what we're doing. Now it's time to go.

  Eileen Collins

  Believe, Space, People

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• That night I lie out under the stars again. The Pleiades are there winking at me. I am no longer on my way from one place to another. I have changed lives. My life now is as black and white as night and day; a life of fierce struggle under the sun, and peaceful reflection under the night sky. I feel as though I am floating on a raft far, far away from any world I ever knew.

  Ted Simon

  Stars, Lying, Struggle

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• Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age may be remembered chiefly for one fact: It was the time when the inhabitants of the earth first made contact with the vast cosmos in which their small planet is embedded.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Years, Space

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• Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Destiny, Space, Survival

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• Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Mean, Space

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

  T. S. Eliot

  Dark, Space, Vacant

  Four Quartets "East Coker" pt. 3 (1940)

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• I think it is interesting that we have come back to star- and space ships. Jet will do for a transport shorthand; yet when man really reaches, across the vast seas of space, he still reaches in ships.

  John Fowles

  Stars, Men, Thinking

  John Fowles (2010). “Wormholes”, p.328, Random House

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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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• I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

  Burt Rutan

  Space, Important, Reason

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• We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back. That's not the purpose of this program... Space is a laboratory, and we go into it to work and learn the new.

  John Glenn

  Men, Space, People

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• To get your name well enough known that you can run for a public office, some people do it by being great lawyers or philanthropists or business people or work their way up the political ladder. I happened to become known from a different route.

  John Glenn

  Running, Names, Space

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• You're in charge but don't touch the controls.

  Shannon Lucid

  Space

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• The only thing it would be nice to have more of would be M & M's.

  Shannon Lucid

  Nice, Space, Would Be

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• Vision, in my view, is the cause of the greatest benefit to us, inasmuch as none of the accounts now given concerning the Universe would ever have been given if men had not seen the stars or the sun or the heavens. But as it is, the vision of day and night and of months and circling years has created the art of number and has given us not only the notion of Time but also means of research into the nature of the Universe. From these we have procured Philosophy in all its range, than which no greater boon ever has come or will come, by divine bestowal, unto the race of mortals.

  Plato

  Art, Stars, Philosophy

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• It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than a mass of random points of light. I do not see why we should recognize a house, a tree, or a flower here below and not, for example, the red Arcturus up there in the heavens as it hangs from its constellation Bootes, like a basket hanging from a balloon.

  M. C. Escher

  Flower, Light, Sky

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• I have a strong feeling about interesting people in space exploration. . . . And the only way it's going to happen is to have some kid fantasize about getting his ray gun, jumping into his spaceship, and flying into outer space.

  George Lucas

  Strong, Kids, Gun

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