Future Quotes - Page 25

• In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people who would shut up the human race upon this globe, 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 ocean voyage from Liverpool to New York.

  Jules Verne

  New York, Stars, Ocean

  7 Copy quote

• 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 the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.

  William Winwood Reade

  Men, Land, Space

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.514

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning, or of the expectation of good results from any of the trials we heard of. So you will understand that I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society.

  Lord Kelvin

  Expectations, Molecules, Trials

  "The Experts Speak : The Definitive Compendium of Authoritative Misinformation" by Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky, (p. 236), 1984.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which man will never be able to cope. . . . The example of the bird does not prove that man can fly. Imagine the proud possessor of the aeroplane darting through the air at a speed of several hundred feet per second. It is the speed alone that sustains him. How is he ever going to stop?

  Simon Newcomb

  Men, Air, Class

  4 Copy quote

• It is my contention that an agent ideal to the use of the scientific militarist, for both the air raid and the long distance bombardment is now in the process of development; that its eventual perfection is but a matter of time; and its use in warfare is certain to occur. I refer to the rocket. The perfection of the rocket in my opinion will give to future warfare the horror unknown in previous conflicts and will make possible destruction of nations, in a cool, passionless and scientific fashion.

  David Lasser

  Fashion, Distance, Air

  5 Copy quote

• The whole procedure [of shooting rockets into space] . . . presents difficulties of so fundamental a nature, that we are forced to dismiss the notion as essentially impracticable, in spite of the author's insistent appeal to put aside prejudice and to recollect the supposed impossibility of heavier-than-air flight before it was actually accomplished. An analogy such as this may be misleading, and we believe it to be so in this case.

  Richard van der Riet Woolley

  Believe, Space, Air

  5 Copy quote

• The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.

  James Smith McDonnell

  War, Creativity, Space

  8 Copy quote

• Nothing will stop us. The road to the stars is steep and dangerous. But we're not afraid . . . Space flights can't be stopped. This isn't the work of one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.

  Yuri Gagarin

  Stars, Men, Law

  202 Copy quote

• I know that some knowledgeable people fear that although we might be willing to spend a couple of billion dollars in 1958, because we still remember the humiliation of Sputnik last October, next year we will be so preoccupied by color television, or new-style cars, or the beginning of another national election, that we will be unwilling to pay another year's installment on our space conquest bill. For that to happen well, I'd just as soon we didn't start.

  Hugh Latimer Dryden

  Couple, Color, Years

  8 Copy quote

• One day the stars will be as familiar to each man as the landmarks, the curves, and the hills on the road that leads to his door, and one day that will be an airborne life.

  Beryl Markham

  Stars, Men, Curves

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

  Daniel Goldin

  Travel, Air, Alternatives

  4 Copy quote

• I do not believe the greatest threat to our future is from bombs or guided missiles. I don't think our civilization will die that way. I think it will die when we no longer care when the spiritual forces that make us wish to be right and noble die in our hearts.

  Laurence McKinley Gould

  Spiritual, Believe, Heart

  8 Copy quote

• A fixed image of the future is in the worst sense ahistorical.

  Juliet Mitchell

  Fixed, Worst

  Juliet Mitchell (1984). “Women: The Longest Revolution”, Pantheon

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

  John R. Rice

  Time, Past, Men

  47 Copy quote

• I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Believe, Past, Gates

  Arthur Wing Pinero (2007). “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray”, p.36, Broadview Press

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

  Laurence Overmire

  Thinking, Revision, Today

  48 Copy quote

• These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

  Vernon Cooper

  Teaching, Learning, Knowledge

  47 Copy quote

• Evolutionary learning calls upon our creative potentials as it empowers us to envision images of the future and bring those images to life by design.

  Bela H. Banathy

  Design, Empowering, Creative

  Bela H. Banathy (2013). “Guided Evolution of Society: A Systems View”, p.255, Springer Science & Business Media

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The future is not out there in front of us, but inside us.

  Joanna Macy

  Fronts

  Joanna Macy (1983). “Despair and personal power in the nuclear age”, New Society Pub

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I see our country's stagnation and economic woes, I cannot help but think that we need a creative revolution that is embraced by business and endorsed by government and educators alike.

  Larry R. Thompson

  Country, Thinking, Government

  4 Copy quote

• You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Giving, Waiting, Birth

  32 Copy quote

• If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

  Catherine Booth

  Ifs, Boldness

  Catherine Booth (1990). “For God Alone”, Ambassador Productions Limited

  118 Copy quote

  Show source

• As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Leadership, Planning Ahead, Vision

  155 Copy quote

• Give vocational training to the manually minded, and the children's courts of the future will have less to do.

  Lewis E. Lawes

  Children, Giving, Training

  10 Copy quote

• You and I are standing this very second at the meeting place of two eternities: the vast past that has endured forever, and the future that is plunging on to the last syllable of recorded time. We can't possible live in either of those eternities - no, not even for a split second. But, by trying to do so, we can wreck both our bodies and our minds. So let's be content to live the only time we can possible live: from now until bedtime.

  Dale Carnegie

  Past, Two, Forever

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source