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Quotes sent to me by Joseph E. Palaia via email, among other things, cofounder of 4Frontiers Corporation
"e27=Our goal: To place Americans on Mars and to do it within the working lifetimes of scientists and engineers who will be recruited for the effort today. And just as Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to open the continent, our commitment to the Moon/Mars initiative will open the Universe. It's the opportunity of a lifetime‹and offers a lifetime of opportunity. - George Bush, February 2, 1990 (remarks at the University of Tennessee.)
"e28=It's human nature to stretch, to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is not a choice, really; it's an imperative. - Michael Collins, Gemini and Apollo astronaut
"e29=Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same. - Christa McAuliffe
"e30=...space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That's our new frontier out there, and it's everybody's business to know about space. - Christa McAuliffe, December 6, 1985
"e31=If you build it, we will come. - From the movie "Field of Dreams"
"e32=There is nothing so far removed from us to be beyond our reach, or so far hidden that we cannot discover it. - Rene Descartes
"e33=Why our space program? Why, indeed, did we trouble to look past the next mountain? Our prime obligation to ourselves is to make the unknown known. We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are. - Gene Roddenberry, Executive Producer of "Star Trek"
"e34=Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994
"e35=I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars. - Stephen Hawking, interview with Daily Telegraph, 2001
"e36=The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. - Robert Heinlein, speech
"e37=William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. - John F. Kennedy
"e38="Is the surface of the Earth really the right place for an expanding technological civilization?" - Gerard O'Neill.
"e39="Let me end with an explanation of why I believe the move into space to be a human imperative. It seems to me obvious in too many ways to need listing that we cannot much longer depend upon our planet's relatively fragile ecosystem to handle the realities of the human tomorrow. Unless we turn human growth and energy toward the challenges and promises of space, our only other choice may be the awful risk, currently demonstrable, of stumbling into a cycle of fratricide and regression which could end all chances of our evolving further or of even surviving." - Gene Roddenberry, Planetary Report Vol. 1, 1981
"e40="We stand today on the edge of a new frontier. The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises--it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them....It appeals to our pride, not our security--it holds the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security." - John F. Kennedy, Acceptance speech, 7-15-1960
"e41="We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war." - John F. Kennedy
"e42="Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he w! ant to climb it. He said, "Because it is there." Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." - John F. Kennedy
"e43="Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die." - Robert Zubrin, Entering Space, 1999
"e44="The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not only for the reasons that are usually touted by the space community: the need to explore, the scientific return, and the possibility of commercial profit. The most compelling reason, a very long-term one, is the necessity of using space to protect Earth and guarantee the survival of humanity." - William E. Burrows, The Wall Street Journal, 2003
"e45=""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, The New York Times, 2004
"e46="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, speech at Rutgers University
"e47="The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" - Larry Niven, quoted by Arthur Clarke in interview at space.com, 2001
"e48="I would not see our candle blown out in the wind. It is a small thing, this dear gift of life handed us mysteriously out of immensity. I would not have that gift expire... If I seem to be beating a dead horse again and again, I must protest: No! I am beating, again and again, living man to keep him awake and move his limbs and jump his mind... What's the use of looking at Mars through a telescope, sitting on panels, writing books, if it isn't to guarantee, not just the survival of mankind, but mankind surviving forever!" - Ray Bradbury, Mars and the Mind of Man, 1971
"e49="If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space. For the simple fact of the matter is, the planet Earth is doomed... Let us follow many environmentalists and regard the Earth as Gaia, the mother of all life (which indeed she is). Gaia, like all mothers, is not immortal. She is going to die. But her line of descent might be immortal... Gaia's children might never die out--provided they move into space. The Earth should be regarded as the womb of life--but one cannot remain in the womb forever." - Frank Tipler, The Physics of Immortality, 1994
"e50="If humanity persists and endures, in time we will come face to face with the evolution of our sun. In a few billion years its slow brightening will speed up as it swells into a red giant. Earth will then be uninhabitable, as will the inner regions of the Solar System. Yet there will be other more clement stars to which our descendents may wish to migrate. Certainly a society that has developed space flight and space colonization will have the advantage of never thereafter having to stand hostage to fortune." - T. A. Heppenheimer, Toward Distant Suns, 1979
"e51="Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race." - Robert Heinlein, speech at World Science Fiction Convention, 1961
"e52="Many of the problems that we have today may not have solutions on Earth. The solutions may lie only in leaving the planet behind. There's no way we can avoid tearing up the countryside for ores, for fuel, for raw materials here on Earth--short of everybody dying off." - Keith and Carolyn Henson in Worlds Beyond, ed. New Dimensions Foundation, 1978
"e53="Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival." - Gerard O'Neill, The High Frontier, 1976
"e54="People who view industrialization as a source of the Earth's troubles, its pollution, and the desecration of its surface, can only advocate that we give it up. This is something that we can't do; we have the tiger by the tail. We have 4.5 billion people on Earth. We can't support that many unless we're industrialized and technologically advanced. So, the idea is not to get rid of industrialization but to move it somewhere else. If we can move it a few thousand miles into space, we still have it, but not on Earth. Earth can then become a world of parks, farms, and wilderness without giving up the benefits of industrialization." - Isaac Asimov, speech at Rutgers University
"e55="If Earth is considered a closed system, there will be less for all forever. The frontier is closed, the wilderness is gone, nature is being destroyed by human consumers, while billions are starving. The future indeed looks grim, and there are, ultimately, no really long-range, positive solutions, nor motivation for making the sacrifices and doing the hard work needed now, unless we understand that we are evolving from an Earth-only toward an Earth-space or universal species." - Barbara Marx Hubbard, Distant Star, 1997
"e56="One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it." - Krafft Ehricke, "Extraterrestrial Imperative" in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1971
"e57="There are three reasons why, quite apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first reason 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 reason is 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 reason is our spiritual need for an open frontier." - Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe, 1979
"e58="As long as there is the safety valve of unexplored frontiers, the aggressive and exploitive urges of human beings can be channeled into long-term possibilities and benefits. But as those frontiers close down, and people begin to turn in upon themselves, that jeopardizes the democratic fabric itself. I don't happen to think the frontier is closed. It's just opening up in space... The human race is going out and throughout, wherever space will permit us to go. It's only a question of when, and who, and what kind of leadership will take us there. And I, for one, don't think we ought to be looking just down here below." - Governor Jerry Brown, remarks at a symposium, 1977
"e59="The possible advantages of [space colonization] are many and not to be taken lightly. In theory many of humanity's most environmentally destructive activities could be removed from the biosphere entirely. The population density of the Earth could be reduced, and a high quality of life could be provided to all Homo sapiens. It might even make war obsolete... Environmentalists often accuse politicians of taking too short-term a view of the human predicament. By prematurely rejecting the idea of space colonies they would be making the same mistake." - Paul Ehrlich in Space Colonies, ed. Steward Brand, 1977
"e60="Any hostility that some environmentalists have shown toward space projects arises from the intense sense of responsibility to focus on the needs of the planet. They have not come to appreciate--and hardly anyone has--that the long-term health of this world requires that we also develop the capacity to leave it in large numbers. So this is our dual responsibility to the planet that gave us our existence: to protect her and to spread her seeds. It's actually very simple and obvious if you think about it. Both activities are equally essential to maintain the balance of life. Now that we are mature, we must begin to take these responsibilities very seriously." - Steven Wolfe, "Space Settlement: The Journey Within,presented at National Space Society conference, 2004
"e61="We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial infinity and temporal immortality it provides may well be just the remedy for these age-old problems. Access to the boundless resources of the universe may once and for all puncture the pressure of population and politics of scarcity which have generated war, oppression, and plagued our species from the start." - Paul Levinson, "Technology as the Cutting Edge of Cosmic Evolution," presented at AAAS annual meeting, 1984
"e62="The penetration of humankind into the universe, into its study and mastery, is not an expression of the inability of human beings to grapple with earthly difficulties and problems, not flight from them, but a qualitatively new and often even unique, irreplaceable means of solving many of the most important tasks of science, technology and the economy." - A. D. Ursul, "The Human Being and the Universe" in Soviet Studies in Philosophy, 1978
"e63="Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind." - Arthur C. Clarke, "What Is to Be Done?" in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1992
"e64="The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies." - Astronaut Rusty Schweickart in L-5 News, 1977
"e65="...We open the frontier to help save the planet we love from the ravages caused by our ever growing numbers and our hunger for new forms of energy, materials and products. Finally, and most importantly, we must open the frontier as humans to survive as a species and to protect our precious biosphere from destruction by the forces of the universe or ourselves by making it redundant." - Rick Tumlinson, Testimony to a Senate Committee, 2003
"e66="If our species does not soon embrace this unique opportunity with sufficient commitment, it may miss its one and only chance to do so. Humanity could soon be overwhelmed by one or more of the many challenges it now faces. The window of opportunity is closing as fast as the population is increasing.... Our future will be either a Space Age or a Stone Age." - Arthur Woods and Marco Bernasconi, Space News, 1995
"e67="It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself." - Gerard O'Neill, Foreword to The Overview Effect by Frank White, 1981
"e68="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, The Case for Mars, 1996
"e69="The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose." - Louis J. Halle in Foreign Affairs, 1980
"e70="War and space exploration are alternative uses of the assertive, exploratory energies that are so characteristic of human beings. They may also be mutually exclusive because if one occurs on a massive scale, the other probably will not." - Frank White, The Overview Effect, 1981
"e71"Man is so made that he can progress only when challenged. If sociological advance were to make war impossible before a planet's technology was sufficiently developed, the people of that planet would never achieve the means to expand to other worlds. If they waited for overpopulation to confront them, it would be too late; they'd either become the victims of mass starvation and chaos, or would resort to ruthless, planned killing without the 'excuse' of war, followed by an irreversible decadence. But the fuse is necessarily short. The technology, once achieved, must be used for expansion; otherwise the tendency toward war outlives its purpose and results in inescapable disaster." - Sylvia Engdahl, The Far Side of Evil, 1971
"e72="Every civilization [in the universe] must go through this [a nuclear crisis]. Those that don't make it destroy themselves. Those that do make it end up cavorting all over the universe." - Physicist Ted Taylor, quoted by John McPhee in The Curve of Binding Energy, 1974
"e73="It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail." - Robert Heinlein, I Will Fear No Evil, 1970
"e74="The eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. We have vowed that we shall not see space filled with weapons of mass destruction, but with instruments of knowledge and understanding.... I do not say the we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered without feeding the fires of war, without repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours." - John F. Kennedy, speech at Rice University, 1962
"e75="I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least likely to hate each other. Like the late Erich von Holst, I believe that the tremendous and otherwise not quite explicable public interest in space flight arises from the subconscious realization that it helps to preserve peace. May it continue to do so!" - Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, 1963
"e76="The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'" - Gerard O'Neill, testimony before a congressional committee, 1978
"e77="Men go into space .. to see whether it is the kind of place where other men, and their families and their children, can eventually follow them. A disturbingly high proportion of the intelligent young are discontented because they find the life before them intolerably confining. The moon offers a new frontier. It is as simple and splendid as that." - Editorial on the moon landing, The Economist, 1969
"e78="While civilization is more than a high material living standard it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty or in an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness. Therefore, the end objectives of solar system exploration are social objectives, in the sense that they relate to or are dictated by present and future human needs." - Krafft Ericke, 1970
"e79="In my own view, the important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited." - Neil Armstrong, press conference, 1999
"e80="Space colonization offers mankind a radically new and different option: The choice is no longer between continued growth until the limits of a small planet force collapse back to subsistence farming versus drastic social and economic changes to halt growth soon. We now have a third choice, that of continuing growth, but in a very different direction." - J. Peter Vajk in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 1976
"e81="In my considered opinion, the profit to be made by permanent settlement in space is nothing less than the survival of industrial civilization, and therefore the survival of nearly the entire human race, along with such amenities as peace, freedom, enough to eat, and the chance to reach a high age in good health." - Poul Anderson in Galileo, 1979
"e82="Without space included in the equation, 'sustainable growth' is an oxymoron. Think about it a moment. It suggests a pattern of growth somehow continuing indefinitely within a closed bubble--but a bubble can only 'sustain' so much growth before we bump into the walls.... Even with huge improvements in clean technology and recycling, under the closed sustainable growth scenario, it is simply impossible for every human on the planet Earth to achieve the lifestyle of the average North American without destroying that same planet. Yet, morally, there is absolutely no reason they should not be as rich as we are.... We can sustain the growth of the human species and the other life of planet Earth only by bursting the bubble. We must open the space frontier." - Rick Tumlinson, "The Frontier Files," Space Frontier Foundation, 1995
"e83="Space, [Stine] argues, is to be the scene of a Third Industrial Revolution because there man can find virtually limitless energy and resources. Pollution as a by-product of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions disappears in the vastness of space. He pictures our present earthbound industrial system as being a closed system for ecological purposes. By developing space as a site for industry, man opens up the system and ensures his future survival--a survival holding the promise of plenty rather than scarcity." - Barry Goldwater, Introduction to The Third Industrial Revolution by G. Harry Stine, 1975
"e84="If the Third Industrial Revolution is not a realistic forecast, perhaps it is the fate of all intelligent, self-aware species in the universe to blaze like a supernova for one brief instant of climactic glory before sinking into a final nuclear dark age. But I don't think so. I prefer to believe that there is more to the human race than that. We have come far. There are those among us who will not be daunted or denied a better future or an ultimate destiny among the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in Politics, 'We think our civilization near the meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.'" - G. Harry Stine, The Third Industrial Revolution, 1975
"e85="It is not failure but success that is forcing man off this earth. It is not sickness but the triumph of health... Our capacity to survive has expanded beyond the capacity of Earth to support us. The pains we are feeling are growing pains. We can solve growth problems in direct proportion to our capacity to find new worlds... If man stays on Earth, his extinction is sure even if he lasts till the sun expands and destroys him... It is no longer reasonable to assume that the meaning of life lies on this earth alone. If Earth is all there is for man, we are reaching the foreseeable end of man." - Earl Hubbard, Our Need for New Worlds, 1976
"e86="Recent studies have considered the detection of a spaceship visiting our parish of the galaxy. In my opinion that last thought should bring a blush to every human cheek... Fecklessness might be the main theme of [the aliens'] report on the new-found source of radio pollution ... [that] emanates from beings who have mastered a lot of physics, chemistry and biology and yet let their children starve--while all around their planet the energy of their mother star runs to waste in a desert of space." - Nigel Calder, Spaceships of the Mind, 1978
"e87="Interplanetary and interstellar colonists would be motivated by a desire for new living space away from the rapidly-filling earth, or in later times, the rapidly-filling solar system--new sources of energy, material resources, new beauty and new knowledge... As the total human population increased ... the number of scientists, musicians, artists and philosophers would increase proportionally. And as the knowledge and power of the race increased, so would the knowledge and power of the individual human being." - Dandridge Cole and Donald Cox, Islands in Space, 1964
"e88="Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny." - Neil Armstrong, "Out of This World," Saturday Review, 1974
"e89="Now, more than ever, we need people in space... The events of September 11 show us how vulnerable we and our civilization are down here on Earth... So let us use our strength, our awareness of mortality as a civilization, to do something truly lasting and earth-shaking for humanity. Let us join with the peoples and cultures of this planet, the diversities of its perspectives and religions and science, so we can leave it--not behind, but as a springboard to something better." - Paul Levinson, Realspace, 2003
"e90="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. All of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster... To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation." - Ben Bova, The High Road, 1981
"e91="Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any of the risks on Earth... Will this happen before our technological civilization disintegrates, leaving this as a might-have-been? Will the self-sustaining space communities be established before a catastrophe sets back the prospect of any such enterprise, perhaps foreclosing it forever? We live at what could be a defining moment for the cosmos, not just for our Earth." - Martin Rees, England's Astronomer Royal, Our Final Hour, 2003
"e92="This generation is crucial; we have the resources to get mankind off this planet. If we don't do it, we may soon be facing a world of 15 billion people and more, a world in which it's all we can do to stay alive; a world without the resources to go into space and get rich... I don't think it will come to that because the vision of the future is so clear to me. We need realize only one thing: we do not inhabit 'Only One Earth.' Mankind doesn't live on Earth. Man lives in a solar system... Given [a] basic space civilization ... we'll have accomplished one goal: no single accident, no war, no one insane action will finish us off." - Jerry Pournelle, A Step Farther Out, 1979
"e93="Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford to open up the high frontier. What we do during the next ten or twenty years may determine whether future generations will live in a humane and rewarding society, or whether they will spend their lives in desperate contention for the dwindling sustenance afforded by our limited terrestrial resources." - Astronaut Philip Chapman in Physics Today, 1978
"e94="I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today--in the closing years of the 20th century--have a commitment to our species to make sure that the flicker of movement we have thus managed in space stays sufficiently kindled so that the people of the 21st century can build upon and extend the human abode from Earth to the cosmos beyond." - Paul Levinson, introduction to an online conference,Connected Education, Inc., 1987
"e95="To fulfill our cosmic destiny and carry Life to the stars, we must act quickly. The same unleashed powers that enable us to enliven the universe are now, ironically, causing us to destroy the Earth. The longer we delay, the further we may slip into a pit of our own digging. If we wait too long, we will be swept into a world so poisoned by pollution, so overrun by masses of starving people, so stripped of surplus resources, that there will be no chance to ever leave this planet. Thus far, we have failed to use our new powers for the ends they were intended. The result is an accelerating slide toward disaster... We need to rupture the barriers that confine us to the land mass of a single planet. By breaking out, we can assure our survival and the continuation of Life." - Marshall Savage, The Millennial Project, 1992
"e96="There may be only a brief window of opportunity for space travel during which we will in principle have the capability to establish colonies (which could in turn establish further colonies). If we let that opportunity pass without taking advantage of it we will be doomed to remain on the Earth where we will eventually go extinct." - Richard Gott, "Implications of the Copernician Principle For Our Future Prospects," Nature, 1993
"e97="We hesitate about where to go from here in space. Yet our delay in exploiting this window of opportunity could close off choices for our descendants if the no-growth paradigm--or a failure of nerve--should come to dominate the industrial nations... Because of our technologies, and the scales of our political and economic organizations, we now have the option of taking a conscious evolutionary step, expanding the presence and influence of humanity beyond the biosphere that evolved us--and possibly beyond the limits that otherwise would constrain our future... Our generation is the first to have this choice. It may be up to us to prove that intelligence armed with technology has long-term survival value." - Michael Michaud in Life in the Universe, AAAS Selected Symposium 31, 1979
"e98="I believe it is urgent to begin now, before we are constrained by a totally controlled society monitoring limited resources on the planet. Now is the time to establish our extraterrestrial base in freedom; later it may be under the coercion of necessity." - Barbara Marx Hubbard in L-5 News, 1977
"e99="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, speech at Newark College of Engineering, 1974
"e100="We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities." - James Michener, testimony before a U.S. Senate subcommittee, 1979
"e101="Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are focusing their anxieties on home. The reasons are not far to seek. We are at a turning point in human history... We could turn our attention to the problems that going to the moon certainly will not solve ... But I think this would be fatal to our future... A society that no longer moves forward does not merely stagnate; it begins to die." - Anthropologist Margaret Mead, "Man on the Moon," Redbook Magazine, 1969
"e102="If two or three hundred years from now an earthbound civilization is dying ... and they look back at the opportunity that we have here at the close of the twentieth century to move out into space and they see that we didn't do anything with it ... I don't want history to judge us on having blown this opportunity, and I think history will judge us on this more than on any other issue." - Paul Levinson, speech at Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, 1986
"e103="It may be that the venture into space is the product of biological determinism which impels us to explore a new environment when we are technologically ready." - Richard S. Lewis, Appointment on the Moon, 1968
"e104="The space effort is very simply a continuation of the expansion of ecological range, which has been occurring at an accelerating rate throughout the evolutionary history of Man... Successful extraterrestrial colonization, for example, might be counted as an evolutionary "success," and unsuccessful colonization--abandonment of the space effort--as an evolutionary "failure." ... Space exploration should be considered primarily as a biological thrust outward for the human species, and not just another step toward making life easier through a speedup in technology." - Ward J. Haas, "Biological Significance of the Space Effort,"in Annals of the New York Academy of Science, 1966
"e105="I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation." - Donald A. Wollheim, The Universe Makers, 1971
"e106="One of the most fundamental aspects of life is its relentless pursuit of new environmental niches to colonize. It seems inevitable that, sooner or later, living things will spread off the planet--if not us, then perhaps whatever comes after us. Seen this way, a space station need not be a tin can. It can be like the reptile's egg, the bold evolutionary innovation that contained the water and the salts of the oceans and brought them safely onto land." - Corey Powell, "MIR vs. Pathfinder," LA Times, 1997
"e107="In the long run, the only solution I see to the problem of diversity is the expansion of mankind into the universe by means of green technology... Green technology means we do not live in cans but adapt our plants and our animals and ourselves to live wild in the universe as we find it... When life invades a new habitat, she never moves with a single species. She comes with a variety of species, and as soon as she is established, her species spread and diversify further. Our spread through the galaxy will follow her ancient pattern." - Freeman Dyson, Disturbing the Universe, 1979
"e108="It is inconsistent with the nature of life--as revealed by the record of the past--for a species to remain in an environmental niche when the opportunity exists for escape. Most individuals of the species remain within the security and comfort of the environment to which they have become adapted... [But] certain individuals will always probe the limits of their environment. These adventurous few are the vanguard of a new development in the evolution of life... As most fish remained in the water, and most apes remained in the forest, just so, in tomorrow's world most of us will remain on the earth... But a small percentage of the human species ... will leave us, and their descendants will spread out into the galaxy." - Robert Jastrow, Introduction to The Next Ten Thousand Years by Adrian Berry, 1974
"e109="We should have positive expectations of what is in the universe, not fears and dreads. We are made with the realization that we're not Earthbound, and that our acceptance of the universe offers us room to explore and extend outward. It's like being in a dark room and imagining all sorts of terrors. But when we turn on the light--technology--suddenly it's just a room where we can stretch out and explore. If the resources here on Earth are limited, they are not limited in the universe. We are not constrained by the limitations of our planet.... As children have to leave the security of family and home life to insure growth into mature adults, so also must humankind leave the security and familiarity of Earth to reach maturity and obtain the highest attainment possible for the human race." - Nichelle Nichols, "The Future is Now" in Update on Space Volume I, 1981
"e110="The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire... Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age." - Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, "From the Moon to the Millenium," Albuquerque Tribune,1999
"e111="When the history of our galaxy is written, and for all any of us know it may already have been, if Earth gets mentioned at all it won't be because its inhabitants visited their own moon. That first step, like a newborn's cry, would be automatically assumed. What would be worth recording is what kind of civilization we earthlings created and whether or not we ventured out to other parts of the galaxy." - Astronaut Michael Collins, Liftoff, 1988
"e112="We shall move out there, not because we want to but because we have to. There is an immediate reason for going--the earth's surface may soon become uninhabitable because of nuclear war or some other catastrophe, and we want the human race to survive--but there is a deeper and more compelling reason for going. We are what our remote ancestors were--colonists, always on the march toward better environments, always evolving, always adapting, learning how to control the physical world to our advantage. It is inconceivable that we have here and now come to the end of our long march, reduced to clinging to what we have, with no prospect for improvement--no hope. Rather we must view our present situation, with all its very real problems, as merely an overnight campsite along the way." - Edward Gilfillan, Migration to the Stars, 1975
"e113="When it is realized that man's future, his greatest fulfillment, may lie in the cosmos and not on the surface of the earth at all, then it is strongly suggested that mankind has not reached maturity but only completed gestation. Man is a creature not merely of the earth. Man's creation began as a turbulence in a cloud of gas in infinite space and proceeded by condensation into a galaxy, stars, planets, and finally the seas and continents of the earth. These speculations lead inescapably to the concept that man is the creature of the cosmos, not of the earth; that the earth is only his womb, his chrysalis perhaps." - Hamilton B. Webb, "Speculations on Space and Human Destiny," 1961
"e114="We are at the stage of the flower bud, not the bloom; the pregnant woman, not the newborn. In this stage we represent only the potential for the extension of life into the cosmos, with no guarantee that we will succeed. Humanity is the means by which evolution has determined achieve its end... Not to act in building civilizations beyond this planet is quite literally to go against the very demand of the universe. If we are resolved to participate in this effort, we must be willing to get very close to the evolutionary tension throbbing within us, and boldly act in accordance with it." - Steven Wolfe, Ad Astra, 2004
"e115="Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know for sure that it will expire after a few billion more. Long before that, our planet may become a place where it is no longer suitable for us to live. Increasing luminosity of the sun may gradually boil our oceans, or more sudden catastrophes may threaten our existence. If we are wise, we will have furnished our new apartments long before that time." - Robert Shapiro, Planetary Dreams, 1999
"e116="Eventually we must leave Earth--at least a certain number of our progeny must as our sun approaches the end of its solar life cycle. But just as terrestrial explorers have always led the way for settlers, this will also happen extraterrestrially. Earth is our cradle, not our final destiny." - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, The Way of the Explorer, 1996
"e118="As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the moon and Jupiter]... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse." - Johannes Kepler, letter to Galileo, 1610
"e119="In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle which it must never outstep, 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 voyage from Liverpool to New York." - Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon, 1865
"e120="A time will come when science will transform [our bodies] by means which we cannot conjecture... 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 quarters of the universe." - Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man, 1872
"e121="On earth, even if we should use all the solar energy which we receive, we should still be wasting all but one two-billionths of the energy the sun gives out. Consequently, when we have learnt to live on this solar energy and also to emancipate ourselves from the earth's surface, the possibilities of the spread of humanity will be multiplied accordingly... There will, from desire or necessity, come the idea of building a permanent home for men in space... At first space navigators, and then scientists whose observations would be best conducted outside the earth, and then finally those who for any reason were dissatisfied with earthly conditions would come to inhabit these bases and found permanent spatial colonies." - J. D. Bernal, The World, the Flesh and the Devil, 1929
"e122="For me, a rocket is only a means--only a method of reaching the depths of space--and not an end in itself... There's no doubt that it's very important to have rocket ships since they will help mankind to settle elsewhere in the universe. But what I'm working for is this resettling... The whole idea is to move away from the Earth to settlements in space." - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, said to a friend, 1930s
"e123="We will go to Mars for the challenge. Anything short of Martian settlement will be too easy an undertaking." - Joseph Palaia Space.Com Article 2005
"e124="No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe." - Henry Miller, Sunday after the War, 1944
"e125="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 ... each contributing to the common experience its characteristic view of the universe. 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, address to the British Interplanetary Society, 1948
"e126="I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected aster[oid] moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!" - Wernher von Braun, "A Plea for a Coordinated Space Program" in The Complete Book of Outer Space, 1953
"e127="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, Man Into Space, 1957
"e128="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, Time magazine, 1958
"e129="There is no way back into the past; the choice, as Wells once said, is the universe--or nothing. Though men and civilizations may yearn for rest, for the dream of the lotus-eaters, that is a desire that merges imperceptibly into death. The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close." - Arthur C. Clarke, Interplanetary Flight, 1950
"e130="Life, for ever dying to be born afresh, for ever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars." - H. G. Wells, The Outline of History, 1920
"e131="Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"e132="Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success." - Ernest Shackleton (attributed)
"e133="All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence
"e134="Always use the word “impossible” with the greatest caution." - Wernher Von Braun
"e135="In my own view, the important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited." - Neil Armstrong, press conference, 1999
"e136="There is no way back into the past; the choice, as H. G. Wells once said, is the universe -- or nothing. Though men and civilizations may yearn for rest, for the dream of the lotus-eaters, that is a desire that merges imperceptibly into death. The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close." - Arthur C. Clarke.
"e137="The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" - Larry Niven, quoted by Arthur Clarke in interview at space.com, 2001
"e138="The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. - Glaser and Way
"e138="We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
"e139="Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." - Johnny Hart
"e140="Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out? - anon
"e141="When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. -- Thomas Paine
"e142="Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." - Arthur C. Clarke
"e143="It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." —Theodore Roosevelt
"e144="Man must rise above the Earth -- to the top of the atmosphere and beyond -- for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives." - Socrates
"e145="If one asks "What is man?" then I say: He is who ventures forth! He leaves his continent, travels under water, over water, to the North Pole, always moving forward. He ventures off even when others proclaim the Earth to be flat and that he will surely fall off the edge. To this he responds: "I want to see it for myself, I do not believe this." and off he goes. Now we have come so far that we have the entire Earth within our grasp, we ventured everywhere upon its surface. Now we have the opportunity of leaving. Thus man moves off again, into space. Why should it be otherwise?" - German astronaut Reinhard Furrer
"e146="Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir humanity's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical plan once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and daughters are going to do things that will stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon, beauty. Think big." - Daniel Burnham; US Architect, 19th Century
"e147="What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible." - Theodore Roethke, American poet (1908 - 1963)
"e148="If one asks "What is man?" then I say: He is who ventures forth! He leaves his continent, travels under water, over water, to the North Pole, always moving forward. He ventures off even when others proclaim the Earth to be flat and that he will surely fall off the edge. To this he responds: "I want to see it for myself, I do not believe this." and off he goes. Now we have come so far that we have the entire Earth within our grasp, we ventured everywhere upon its surface. Now we have the opportunity of leaving. Thus man moves off again,into space. Why should it be otherwise?" - German Astronaut Reinhard Furrer, 1994 radio interview with Torsten Sasse.
"e149="Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead.
"e150="For me the single overarching goal of human space flight is the human settlement of the solar system... no greater purpose is possible." - Mike Griffin, NASA Administrator, 2004 Congressional testimony.
"e151="One day... there will be more humans living off the Earth than on it." - Mike Griffin, Rolling Stone magazine, February 23, 2006.
"e152="It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet speicies will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience." - Elon Musk
"e153="Without risk there's no discovery, there's no new knowledge, there's no bold adventure... the greatest risk is to take no risk." - June Scobee Rodgers, the widow of Dick Scobee, Commander of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
"e154="Given that space settlement is the objective, what is the location which makes the most sense to settle first?" - Joseph Palaia at the International Space Development Conference 5/5/06
"e155="For those who see manned space as having no role they would have thought the Wright Brothers were irrelevant in 1903. The human race has a destiny to spread across the solar system and then across the stars. I prefer that destiny be led by free people." - Newt Gingrich May 15, 2006 interview with Gregory Anderson.
"e156="All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." – Edmund Burke
"e157="The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope." - Teilhard de Chardin.
"e158="The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay in 1971.
"e159="It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species. Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of." - Steven Hawking, 2006.
"e160="Why are we doing this? We do not know, we mention too many reasons… under the intricacies of motivations perhaps there is the obscure obedience to an impulse which originated with life and inherent to it, the same which causes the seeds of poplars to surround themselves with wool to fly far in the wind, and frogs …to migrate obstinately from pond to pond, at the risk of their life..." - Italian writer Primo Levi, after seeing the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon
"e161="Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." - James Allen, novelist.
"e162="When a man has put a limit on what he an do, he has put a limit on what he can do." - Charles Schwab, CEO of Bethlehem Steel
"e163="High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation." - Jack Kinder, consultant
"e164="When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either." - Leo Burnett, advertising executive, Leo Burnett Company.
"e165="Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiousity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably." - Walt Disney
"e166="If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller.
"e167="A dream is your creative vision for our life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become ccomefortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown. - Denis Waitley, speaker, writer.
"e168="To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives; it is the only way we an leave the future open." - Lillian Smith, writer, social critic.
"e169="We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations, more phenomena, but live our strongest dreams - even iff it takes a lifetime. - Vijali Hamilton, sculptor, artist, poet.
"e170="To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe." - Anatole France, writer.
"e171="There will always be a Frontier where there is an open mind and a willing hand." - Charles F. Kettering, engineer, inventor.
"e172="Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman D. Vaughan, explorer.
"e173="We could hardly wait to get up in the morning." - Wilbur Wright.
"e174="We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human resonsibility." - Albert Einstein.
"e175="Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, "Why am I doing this?" It comes down to passion." - Lyn St. James, race-car driver.
"e176="The height of your accomplishment will equal the depth off your convictions." - William F. Scolavi.
"e177="The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; the optimist, the opportunity in every difficulty." - Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, clergyman, writer, philosopher.
"e178="You have to be careful about being too careful." - Beryl Pfizer, writer.
"e179="If you risk nothing, then you risk everything." - Geena Davis, actress.
"e180="No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." - Helen Keller.
"e181="I firmly believe that any man's finest hour - this greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle." - Vince Lombardi.
"e182="Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot.
"e183="The world is moving so ast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it." - Elbert Hubbard, writer, editor.
"e184="Change takes guts. It take imagination. It takes commitment." - John Taylor, General Motors.
"e185="Your world is as big as you make it." - Georgia Douglas Johnson, poet.
"e186="It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be." - T.S. Eliot.
"e187="What the human mind can conceive and believe, it can accomplish." - David Sarnoff, broadcast pioneer.
"e188="Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he stiks his neck out." - James B. Conant, chemist, diplomat, educator.
"e189="Don't let them tell you no. If they say no, don't believe them. It's all about sticking it out. If you think you can do it, don't let anyone laugh at you." - Suzyn Waldman, New York Yankees broadcaster
"e190="The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility." - Charles F. Kettering, engineer, inventor.
"e191="How do we break out of the box we're stuck in? There are lots of reasons why we stay in the box, but the number-one reason is fear of failure." - Donald Winkler, chaiman and CEO, Ford Motor Credit Company
"e192="Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossibility to do that very thing." - John Andrew Holmes.
"e193="If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right." - Mary Kay Ash, founder, Mary Kay Cosmetics.
"e194="The only way that things change is when people are willing to take risks." - Stacy Palmer, editor.
"e195="When you are looking for obstacles, you can't find opportunities." - J.C. Bell
"e196="Discovery consists in seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought." - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Nobel laureate in medicine.
"e197="If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth." - Robert N. Coons
"e198="Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark. Aim for the company of immortals." - David Ogilvy, cofounder, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising.
"e199="With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp." - Jim Loehr, sports psychologist.
"e200="It's important to let people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for." - B. Bader
"e201="All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible." - T.E. Lawrence
"e202="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, on the 37th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 Landing.
"e203="There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and nowhere else can you realize so fully the majesty of our Earth and be so awed at the thought that it's only one of untold thousands of planets." - Gus Grissom
"e204="The Sun truly 'comes up like thunder,' and it sets just as fast. Each sunrise and sunset lasts only a few seconds. But in that time you see at least eight different bands of color come and go, from a brilliant red to the brightest and deepest blue. And you see sixteen sunrises and sixteen sunsets every day you're in space. No sunrise or sunset is ever the same." - Joseph Allen
"e205="We entered into shadow. Contact with Moscow was gone. Japan floated by beneath us and I could clearly see its cities ablaze with lights. We left Japan behind to face the dark emptiness of the Pacific Ocean. No moon. Only stars, bright and far away. I gripped the handle like a man hanging onto a streetcar. Very slowly, agonizingly, half an hour passed, and with that, dawn on Earth. First, a slim greenish-blue line on the farthest horizon turning within a couple of minutes into a rainbow that hugged the Earth and in turn exploded into a golden sun. You're out of your mind, I told myself, hanging onto a ship in space, and to your life, and getting ready to admire a sunrise." - Valeri Ryumin
"e206="Firefly meteorites blazed against a dark background, and sometimes the lightning was frighteningly brilliant. Like a boy, I gazed open-mouthed at the fireworks, and suddenly, before my eyes, something magical occurred. A greenish radiance poured from Earth directly up to the station, a radiance resembling gigantic phosphorescent organ pipes, whose ends were glowing crimson, and overlapped by waves of swirling green mist. 'Consider yourself very lucky, Vladimir,' I said to myself, 'to have watched the northern lights.'" - Vladimir Remek
"e207="I shuddered when I saw a crimson flame through the porthole instead of the usual starry sky at the night horizon of the planet. Vast pillars of light were bursting into the sky, melting into it, and flooding over with all the colors of the rainbow. An area of red luminescence merged smoothly into the black of the cosmos. The intense and dynamic changes in the colors and forms of the pillars and garlands made me think of visual music. Finally, we saw that we had entered directly into the aurora borealis." - Aleksandr Ivanchenkov
"e208="The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man, has to make a man appreciate the creation of God and the love of God." - James B. Irwin
"e209="On the way back [from the moon] we had an EVA [extra-vehicular activity, or spacewalk] I had a chance to look around while I was outside and Earth was off to the right, 180,000 miles away, a little thin sliver of blue and white like a new moon surrounded by this blackness of space. Back over my left shoulder was almost a full moon. I didn't feel like I was a participant. It was like sitting in the last row of the balcony, looking down at all of that play going on down there. I had that insignificant feeling of the immensity of this, God's creation." - Charles Duke
"e210="You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up." - Joseph Allen
"e211="The Pacific. You don't comprehend it by looking at a globe, but when you're traveling at four miles a second and it still takes you twenty-five minutes to cross it, you know it’s big." - Paul Weitz
"e212="Although the ocean's surface seems at first to be completely homogeneous, after half a month we began to differentiate various seas and even different parts of oceans by their characteristic shades. We were astonished to discover that, during an flight, you have to learn anew not only to look, but also to se finest nuances of color elude you, but gradually your vision sharpens and your color perception becomes richer, and the planet spreads out before you with all its indescribable beauty." - Wadimir Lyakhov
"e213="The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth." - Sultan Bin Salman al-Suad
"e214="A strange feeling of complete, almost solemn contentment suddenly overcame me when the descent module landed, rocked, and stilled. The weather was foul, but I smelled Earth, unspeakably sweet and intoxicating. And wind. Now utterly delightful; wind after long days in space." - Andriyan Nicolayev
"e215="Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light, delicate sky-blue sphere laced with slowly swirling veils of white, rising gradually like a small pearl in a thick sea of black mystery. It takes more than a moment to fully realize this is Earth . . . home." - Edgar Mitchell
"e216="My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity." - Edgar Mitchell
"e217="My first view - a panorama of brilliant deep blue ocean, shot with shades of green and gray and white - was of atolls and clouds. Close to the window I could see that this Pacific scene in motion was rimmed by the great curved limb of the Earth. It had a thin halo of blue held close, and beyond, black space. I held my breath, but something was missing - I felt strangely unfulfilled. Here was a tremendous visual spectacle, but viewed in silence. There was no grand musical accompaniment; no triumphant, inspired sonata or symphony. Each one of us must write the music of this sphere for ourselves." - Charles Walker
"e218="For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us." - Donald Williams
"e219="Now approaching lunar sunrise. And for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo eight has a message that we would like to send to you. "In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth. And the Earth was without form and void. And darkness was upon the face of the Deep. . . . And God saw that it was good. . . ." And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, and a Merry Christmas. And God bless all of you, all of you on the good Earth." - Flight crew of Apollo 8, Christmas Eve, 1968
"e220="The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip." - Neil Armstrong
"e221="Houston, Apollo 11 . . . I've got the world in my window." - Michael Collins
"e222="Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over." - Charlie Duke
"e223="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
"e224="For forty-nine months between 1968 and 1972, two dozen Americans had the great good fortune to briefly visit the Moon. Half of us became the first emissaries from Earth to tread its dusty surface. We who did so were privileged to represent the hopes and dreams of all humanity. For mankind it was a giant leap for a species that evolved from the Stone Age to create sophisticated rockets and spacecraft that made a Moon landing possible. For one crowning moment, we were creatures of the cosmic ocean, an epoch that a thousand years hence may be seen as the signature of our century." - Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr.
"e225="The Lunar landing of the astronauts is more than a step in history; it is a step in evolution." - 'New York Times' editorial
"e226="Earth bound history has ended. Universal history has begun." - Earl Hubbard
"e227="For when I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see the radiant body where man has taken his first steps into a frontier that will never end." - David R. Scott
"e228="Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!'" - Alan Bean, Apollo 12
"e229="What fiction could match - in drama or suspense - man's first walk on the Moon?" - Leonard Nimoy
"e230="It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - President John F. Kennedy
"e231="The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly." - President John F. Kennedy
"e232="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." - President John F. Kennedy
"e233="Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." - President John F. Kennedy
"e234="We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share...I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth." - President John F. Kennedy
"e235="We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war." - President John F. Kennedy
"e236="Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, 'Because it is there.' Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." - President John F. Kennedy
"e237="The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society." - President John F. Kennedy
"e238="Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?" - President John F. Kennedy
"e239="A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality." - President John F. Kennedy
"e240="... 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." - President John F. Kennedy
"e241="But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?" - President John F. Kennedy
"e242="We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them." - President John F. Kennedy
"e243="Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." - Leonardo da Vinci
"e244="Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?" - Leonardo da Vinci
"e245="When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." - Le
"e246="Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind." - Leonardo da Vinci
"e247="I think a future flight should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher . . . we might get a much better idea of what we saw." - Michael Collins
"e248="To go places and do things that have never been done before - that's what living is all about." - Michael Collins
"e249="It's human nature to stretch, to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is not a choice, really; it's an imperative." - Michael Collins
"e250="We have taken to the Moon the wealth of this nation, the vision of its political leaders, the intelligence of its scientists, the dedication of its engineers, the careful craftsmanship of its workers, and the enthusiastic support of its people. We have brought back rocks, and I think it is a fair trade . . . Man has always gone where he has been able to go. It's that simple. He will continue pushing back his frontier, no matter how far it may carry him from his homeland." - Michael Collins
"e251="Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." - Neil Armstrong
"e252="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
"e253="For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift." - Wernher von Braun
"e254="I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution." - Wernher von Braun
"e255="It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet." - Wernher von Braun
"e256="There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further." - Wernher von Braun
"e257="We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." - Wernher von Braun
"e258="Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." - Christopher Columbus
"e259="Those who study the stars have God for a teacher." - Tycho Brahe
"e260="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
"e261="Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes, beholds his hereditary skies." - Ovid
"e262="It is difficult to say what is impossible. The dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." - Robert H. Goddard
"e263="Astronomy compels the soul to look upward, and leads us from this world to another." - Plato
"e264="We must somehow keep the dreams of space exploration alive, for in the long run they will prove to be of far more importance to the human race than the attainment of material benefits. Like Darwin, we have set sail upon an ocean: the cosmic sea of the Universe. There can be no turning back. To do so could well prove to be a guarantee of extinction. When a nation, or a race or a planet turns its back on the future, to concentrate on the present, it cannot see what lies ahead. It can neither plan nor prepare for the future, and thus discards the vital opportunity for determining its evolutionary heritage and perhaps its survival." - James C. Fletcher
"e265="Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its shimmering red presence in the clear night sky. It is like a glowing ember in a field of ethereal lights, projecting energy and promise. It inspires visions of an approachable world. The mind vaults to thoughts of what might have been (if Mars were a litter closer to the warming Sun) and of what could be (if humans were one day to plant colonies there). Mysterious Mars, alluring Mars, fourth planet from the Sun: so far away and yet, on a cosmic scale, so very near." - John Noble Wilford
"e266="Mars is the next frontier, what the Wild West was, what America was 500 years ago. It’s time to strike out anew….Mars is where the action is for the next thousand years….The characteristic of human nature, and perhaps our simian branch of the family, is curiosity and exploration. When we stop doing that, we won’t be humans anymore. I’ve seen far more in my lifetime than I ever dreamed. Many of our problems on Earth can only be solved by space technology….The next step is in space. It’s inevitable." - Arthur C. Clarke
"e267="If God wanted man to become a space faring species, He would have given man a moon." - Krafft Ehricke
"e268="… to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before." - Gene Roddenberry
"e269="I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation." - Donald A. Wollheim
"e270="Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you." - Petronius
"e271="Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth and danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings; Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth of sun-split clouds and done a hundred things you have not dreamed of wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace where never lark, or even eagle flew 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.
"e272="Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of its husk, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own." - John Ruskin
"e273="I believe a blade of grass is no less than the journeywork of the stars." - Walt Whitman
"e274="Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier." - Charles F. Kettering
"e275="As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the moon and Jupiter]... Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse." - Johannes Kepler
"e276="Mankind will not remain on Earth forever, but in its quest for light and space will at first timidly penetrate beyond the confines of the atmosphere, and later will conquer for itself all the space near the Sun." - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
"e277="I had the ambition to not only go farther than man had gone before, but to go as far as it was possible to go." - Captain Cook
"e278="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
"e279="The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire... Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age." - Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin Jr.
"e280="Of all investments into the future, the conquest of space demands the greatest efforts and the longest-term commitment . . . but it also offers the greatest reward: none less than a universe." - Daniel Christlein
"e281="Human interest in exploring the heavens goes back centuries. This is what human nature is all about." - Dennis Tito
"e282="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 M. Worden
"e283="To fly in space is to see the reality of Earth, alone. The experience changed my life and my attitude toward life itself. I am one of the lucky ones." - Roberta Bondar
"e284="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 S. Onizuka
"e285="First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream." - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
"e286="Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere." - Carl Sagan
"e287="Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
"e288="We are one species. We are starstuff." - Carl Sagan
"e289="But for us, it's different. Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." - Carl Sagan
"e290="The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds." - Carl Sagan
"e291="Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." - Carl Sagan
"e292="Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring." - Carl Sagan
"e293="It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness." - Carl Sagan
"e294="A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem." - Albert Einstein
"e295="Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein
"e296="If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
"e297="Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars. It isn’t only the beauty of the night sky that thrills me. It’s the sense I have that some of those points of light are the home stars of beings not so different from us, daily cares and all, who look across space and wonder, just as we do." - Frank Drake
"e298="To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." - Stephen Hawking
"e299="It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be." - Isaac Asimov
"e300="The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
"e301="Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles." - Helen Keller
"e302="Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." - Helen Keller
"e303="Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence." - Helen Keller
"e304="Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller
"e305="One cannot consent to creep when one has an impulse to soar." - Helen Keller
"e306="The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision." - Helen Keller
"e307="Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them." - Phantom F. Harlock
"e308="Sometimes dreams alter the course of an entire life." - Judith Duerk
"e309="Think impossible and dreams get discarded, projects get abandoned, and hope for wellness is torpedoed. But let someone yell the words it’s possible, and resources we hadn't been aware of come rushing in to assist us in our quest." - Greg Anderson
"e310="To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, are the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy." - Bette Davis
"e311="Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen. But while we wait, we need to prepare symbolically a place for our hopes and dreams." - Sarah
"e312="Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much." - Anonymous
"e313="We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true." - Woodrow Wilson
"e314="Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so." - Belva Davis
"e315="Dream as if you'll live forever... live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"e316="Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe
"e317="All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about... We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live." - Joseph Epstein
"e318="Let your dream devour your life not your life devour your dream." - Anonymous
"e319="Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain
"e320="Those who lose dreaming are lost." - Australian Aboriginal Proverb
"e321="Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it." - Mark Twain
"e322="Man's mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"e323="I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison
"e324="Great things are only possible with outrageous requests." - Thea Alexander
"e325="Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"e326="Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"e327="Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot
"e328="The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been." - Henry A. Kissinger
"e329="The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created-created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them, changes both the maker and the destination." - John Schaar
"e330="Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers." - Anonymous
"e331="It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney
"e332="Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." - Apple Computer Advertisement
"e333="The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers." - Arthur Koestler
"e334="Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it." - Greg Anderson
"e335="Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you." - Stewart E. White
"e336="Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - Anonymous
"e337="A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve
"e338="Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean." - Christopher Reeve
"e339="I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan
"e340="When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power." - Phyllis Bottome
"e341="One today is worth two tomorrows." - Benjamin Franklin
"e342="All successful people are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose." - Brian Tracy
"e343="Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision." - Ayn Rand
"e344="Create a vision and never let the environment, other people's beliefs, or the limits of what has been done in the past shape your decisions. Ignore conventional wisdom." - Anthony Robbins
"e345="You have to think big to be big." - Claude M. Bristol
"e346="Ideas are like stars: You will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny." - Carl Schurz
"e347="All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"e348="There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persist when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back." - Orison Swett Marden
"e349="Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much…in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
"e350="True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come." - Terence
"e351="I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren’t enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision." - W. Clement Stone
"e352="It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your idea, but it is disaster to have no idea to capture. It is not a disgrace not to reach for the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is a sin.' - Dr. Benjamin E. Mayes
"e353="What you get by reaching your destination is not as important as what you become by reaching your destination." - Dr. Robert Anthony
"e354="One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feel once more happy." - Sir Richard Burton
"e355=“What place would you advise me to visit now?” he asked. “The planet Earth,” replied the geographer. “It has a good reputation.” - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
"e356="We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes." - Cybill Shepherd
"e357="Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." - Wernher Von Braun
"e358="Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin
"e359="Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"e360="Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford
"e361="Do or do not. There is no try." - Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back
"e362="To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward." - Margaret Fairless Barber
"e363="The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"e364="You are not expected to complete the work in your lifetime. Nor must you refuse to do your unique part." - Talmud
"e365="If seeds in the black Earth cab turn into such beautiful roses what might not the heart of man become in its long journey towards the stars?' - G. K. Chesterton
"e366="Build a settlement, and they will come." - Frank Crossman, 2006.
"e367="Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night" ~ Edgar Allan Poe
"e368="A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to it's original dimensions." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
"e369="Every revolutionary idea... seems to evoke three stages of reaction: They may be summed up by the phrases: (1) It's completely impossible - don't waste my time; (2) It's possible, but it's not worth doing; (3) I said it was a good idea all along." - Sir Arthur C. Clarke in The Promise of Space, September 1967
