Star Gazing Quotes - Page 9

• After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, "How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?"

  Carl Sagan

  Believe, Giving, Suggestions

  Carl Sagan (2011). “The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.82, Ballantine Books

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• The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Doe, Ufo, Extraterrestrial

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• I am completely convinced that UFOs have an out-of-world basis.

  Walter Riedel

  World, Ufo, Bases

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• The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

  Neil Armstrong

  Regret, Reading, Years

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• The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Silence, Sound

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• Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Space, Long, Survival

  "Stephen Hawking: Space Exploration Crucial To Human Survival". The Canadian Press Interview, www.huffingtonpost.ca. November 18, 2011.

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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'll get to the details of what's around here, but it looks like a collection of just about every variety of shape - angularity, granularity, about every variety of rock.... The colors - well.... There doesn't appear to be too much of a general color at all; however, it looks as though some of the rocks and boulders are going to have some interesting colors to them. Over.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Rocks, Color, Interesting

  "Man Walks on Another World". National Geographic article, ngm.nationalgeographic.com. December 1969.

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• Nothing is more symptomatic of the enervation, of the decompression of the Western imagination, than our incapacity to respond to the landings on the Moon. Not a single great poem, picture, metaphor has come of this breathtaking act, of Prometheus' rescue of Icarus or of Phaeton in flight towards the stars.

  George Steiner

  Stars, Moon, Imagination

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• ... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Space, United States

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

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• This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moving, Fog, Dust

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• Roger. We've got you, we're go on that alarm.

  Charles Duke

  Alarms, Apollo, Goes On

  "First Man on the Moon", www.pbs.org. December 3, 2014.

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• Armstrong, sitting in the commander's seat, spacesuit on, helmet on, plugged into electrical and environmental umbilical's, is a man who is not only a machine himself in the links of these networks, but is also a man sitting in (what Collins is later to call) a 'mini-cathedral.' a man somewhat more than a pilot, somewhat more than a superpilot, is in fact a veritable high priest of the forces of society and scientific history concentrated in that mini cathedral, a general of the church of the forces of technology.

  Norman Mailer

  Technology, Men, Church

  "A Fire on the Moon".

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• Err Houston, we've had a problem. [pause] We've had a main B bus undervolt.

  Jim Lovell

  Apollo, Houston, Problem

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• Are we human because we gaze at the stars or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?

  Neil Gaiman

  Stars, Stardust, Humans

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "Stardust", 2007.

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• A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

  Jane Goldman

  Stars, Philosopher, Stardust

  "Fictional character: Narrator". "Stardust", m.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Putting a man in space is a stunt: the man can do no more than an instrument, in fact can do less. There are far more serious things to do than indulge in stunts. . . . I do not discard completely the value of demonstrating to the world our skills. Nor do I undervalue the effect on morale of the spectacular. But the present hullabaloo on the propaganda aspects of the program leaves me entirely cool.

  Vannevar Bush

  Moon, Men, Skills

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• In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance policy against catastrophe at home. During the next millennium there is a significant chance that civilization on Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, a killer plague or a global war. A Martian colony could keep the flame of civilization and culture alive until Earth could be reverse-colonized from Mars.

  Paul Davies

  War, Home, Moon

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• Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Thinking, Ideas

  "The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies - review" by Nicholas Lezard, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2011.

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• Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

  Eric Hoffer

  God, Stars, Airplane

  www.nytimes.com. July 21, 1969.

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• Space is to place as eternity is to time.

  Joseph Joubert

  Time, Space, Eternity

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• NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.

  Rachael Ray

  Space, Fake, Desire

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• It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

  Alan Shepard

  Space, Government, Safety

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• I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity.

  John Glenn

  Moon, Leader, Rewards

  "John Glenn, a pioneering former US astronaut, has died" by Dave Mosher and Reuters, www.businessinsider.com. December 8, 2016.

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• In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Moon, Extraterrestrial, Walking

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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