Star Gazing Quotes - Page 7

• One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Believe, Moon, Air

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.724, Best Books on

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• I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could be there as aspects of reality that are beyond the capacity of our brains They could be staring us in the face and we just Don't recognise them. The problem is that we-re looking for something very much like us, assuming that they at least have something like the same mathematics and technology.

  Martin Rees

  Technology, Reality, Moon

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• Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.

  Paul Horowitz

  Moon, Trying, Imagine

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• If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable magnitude. Mankind alone has the power to carry out this fundamental change in the universe. Our failure would lead to consequences unthinkable. This is perhaps the first and only chance the universe will ever have to awaken from its long night and live. We are the caretakers of this delicate spark of Life. To let it flicker and die through ignorance, neglect, or lack of imagination is a horror too great to contemplate.

  Marshall Savage

  Ignorance, Moon, Night

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• I think in the long run the money that s been put into the space program is one of the best investments this country has ever made . . .This is a downpayment on the future of mankind. It's as simple as that.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Country, Simple

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• The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy.

  Stephen Hawking

  Stars, Believe, Moon

  Stephen W. Hawking (1993). “Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays”, Bantam

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• A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.

  Ben Bova

  Military, Moon, Space

  Ben Bova (1983). “The High Road”, Pocket

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• There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.

  Freeman Dyson

  Spiritual, Moon, Grandchildren

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• Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing fine. And eventually, they help you get out of the dark age. We are now facing a possible dark age which is going to be world-wide and permanent! That's not fun. That's a different thing. But once we have established many worlds, we can do whatever we want as long as we do it one world at a time.

  Isaac Asimov

  Fun, Dark, Moon

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• For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Moon, Years

  "The Prospect for Humanity," Saturday Review, 29 Aug. 1964

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• Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not only for economic exploitation, but also as possible homes for man. . . . The goal for the solar system would seem to be that it should become an interplanetary community of very diverse worlds . . . . Through the pooling of this wealth of experience, through this 'commonwealth of worlds,' new levels of mental and spiritual development should become possible, levels at present quite inconceivable to man.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Spiritual, Home, Men

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• There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?

  Isaac Asimov

  Moon, Space, Escaping

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• It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their neighbors and from their government, to go and live as they please in the wilderness. A truly isolated, small, and creative society will never again be possible on this planet.

  Freeman Dyson

  Running, Moon, Men

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• Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed towards our species goal: Space Migration, which in turn offers the only way to re-attain individual freedom of space-time and the small-group social structures which obviously best suit our nervous systems. It is another paradox of neuro-genetics that only in space habitats can humanity return to the village life and pastoral style for which we all long.

  Timothy Leary

  Moon, Village Life, Space

  Timothy Leary, Robert Anton Wilson, George A. Koopman (1988). “Neuropolitique”, New Falcon Publications

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• Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All kinds of danger wait for him on the Earth. . . . We have said a great deal about the advantages of migration into space, but not all can be said or even imagined.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Men, Moon, Space

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• We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.

  Sara Seager

  Moon, Space, Generations

  "Life beyond Earth seems 'inevitable', US planetary scientist says", www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2014.

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• I am watching the Earth. The visibility is good. I feel well and cheerful. The machine is functioning normally.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Moon, Cheerful, Machines

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• Columbus did not know where he was going, how far it was, nor where he had been after his return. With Apollo, there is no such lack of information. Nevertheless, the flight will involve risks of great magnitude and probably risks that have not been foreseen.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Risk, Apollo, Information

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• Roger, we copy. It was beautiful from here, Tranquility. Over.

  Charles Duke

  Beautiful, Apollo, Roger

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• Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

  Neil Armstrong

  Rocks, Numbers, Long

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• Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter... the bond is there in my mind and memory; Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space.

  Alfred Worden

  Beautiful, Memories, Fall

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• For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Years, People, Generations

  Harry S. Truman (2014). “1945: Year of Decision”, p.6, New Word City

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• UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

  Carl Sagan

  Interesting, Cases, Ufo

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• I have argued flying saucers with lots of people. I was interested in possible. They do not appreciate that the problem is not to demonstrate whether it's possible or not but whether it's going on or not.

  Richard P. Feynman

  People, Appreciate, Flying

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• Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.

  Gene Cernan

  Dream, Technology, Keys

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