Space Travel Quotes - Page 2

• At the moment I'm doing this space movie, so I'm obsessed with physics and space travel. I know three months down the line it's gone. Then I'll be able to superficially say stuff about space.

  Cillian Murphy

  Travel, Space, Months

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• It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Baseball, Funny Motivational, Goals Dreams

  "His Films, His Way: Jim Jarmusch Is Still Figuring Out How to Do It". Interview with Marc Savlov, www.austinchronicle.com. October 20, 2000.

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• It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Space, Philosopher

  Ray Bradbury (2013). “The Martian Chronicles”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

  Ray Bradbury

  War, Space, Too Much

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

  Wernher von Braun

  Sarcastic, Work, Science

  "On Bureaucracy". "Chicago Sun-Times" Newspaper, July 10, 1958.

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

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

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

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• A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

  William Shatner

  Space, Accomplishment, Joy

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

  Lewis Carroll

  Baseball, Travel, Goals Dreams

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

  Burt Rutan

  Dream, Travel, Fun

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

  Hermann Oberth

  Goal, World, Life Is

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

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

  Christa McAuliffe

  Unique, Opportunity, Space

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• But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Smart, Stupid, Home

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• I believe that space travel will one day become as common as airline travel is today. I'm convinced, however, that the true future of space travel does not lie with government agencies -- NASA is still obsessed with the idea that the primary purpose of the space program is science -- but real progress will come from private companies competing to provide the ultimate adventure ride, and NASA will receive the trickle-down benefits.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Real, Lying, Believe

  Buzz Aldrin (2009). “Magnificent Desolation: The Long Journey Home from the Moon”, p.165, A&C Black

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• I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Space, Intellectual, Watches

  "The Perimeter of Ignorance". www.haydenplanetarium.org. November 01, 2005.

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• To be the first to enter the cosmos, to engage, single-handed, in an unprecedented duel with nature-could one dream of anything more?

  Yuri Gagarin

  Dream, Space Flight, Cosmos

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• The thing I'll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I'm sure it was the most fun that I'll ever have in my life.

  Sally Ride

  Fun, Space, Facts

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• I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

  Ray Bradbury

  Space, Individuality, Dinosaurs

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Sep 24, 2015

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• Let's face it, space is a risky business. I always considered every launch a barely controlled explosion.

  Aaron Cohen

  Space, Faces, Risky Business

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• Space travel benefits us here on Earth. And we ain't stopped yet. There's more exploration to come.

  Nichelle Nichols

  Space, Benefits, Earth

  "Star Trek legend who became NASA's 'secret weapon'". Interview with Sheena McKenzie, www.sgutranscripts.org. August 25, 2014.

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• Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves and the universe.

  Lisa Nowak

  Space Flight, Safety, Goal

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• 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

  Space, Pioneers, Wagons

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• Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Space, Aviation, Captivating

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• Spacemen die if they stay in one place.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Astronaut, Traveler, Ifs

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.146, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Sports, War, Distance

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

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• I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we live on, if we assume we can find or make more worlds. I think in our lifetimes we surely will not, probably in the lifetimes of our great-great-grand-descendants we will not.

  Jon Spaihts

  Thinking, Space, Promise

  Source: www.mtv.com

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