Future Quotes - Page 28

• The future is an infinite succession of presents.

  Howard Zinn

  Compassion, Infinite, Defiance

  Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.208, Beacon Press

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• And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill.

  Warren Zevon

  Ocean, California, Statistics

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• Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.

  Hugh Prather

  Happiness, Attitude, Conditions

  Hugh Prather (1970). “Notes to myself: my struggle to become a person”

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• Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

  William Butler Yeats

  Years, Sea, Dancing

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.140, Library of Alexandria

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• The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary.

  Aristotle

  Heaven, Substance, Shapes

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “On the Heavens”, p.48, Aeterna Press

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• Our sun enlightens the planets that belong to him; why may not every fixed star also have planets to which they give light?

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Stars, Light, Giving

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• They have likewise discovered two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve around Mars, whereof the innermost is distant from the center of the primary exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost five: the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half, so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distances from the center of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same Law of Gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies.

  Jonathan Swift

  Stars, Distance, Space

  "Gulliver's Travels". Book by Jonathan Swift. Part III: "A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan". Chapter 3, 1726.

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• From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had been undergoing a progressive diminution. . . . Of course, it is quite clear, that this decrease could not be indicated by an ordinary scales, as the weight to balance the object would have lost precisely as much as the object itself. But a spring balance, for instance, in which the tension of the coil is independent of attraction, would have readily given the exact equivalent of the loss.

  Jules Verne

  Spring, Independent, Loss

  Jules Verne (2014). “All Around The Moon”, p.111, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Is it not demonstrated that a true flying machine, self-raising, self-sustaining, self-propelling, is physically impossible?

  Joseph LeConte

  Self, Flying, Machines

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• The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are over one-half of our earth will have paid a visit to the moon.

  Jules Verne

  Distance, Moon, Years

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “From the Earth to the moon/De la Terre à la lune (Bilingual edition/Édition bilingue)”, p.112, Jules Verne

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• Some think that solar work is pretty well played out. In reality, it is only beginning.

  George Ellery Hale

  Reality, Thinking, Predictions

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• A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Forever, Mind, Pushing Boundaries

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• No rocket will reach the moon save by a miraculous discovery of an explosive far more energetic than any known. And even if the requisite fuel were produced, it would still have to be shown that the rocket machine would operate at 459 degrees below zero-the temperature of interplanetary space.

  Nikola Tesla

  Zero, Moon, Discovery

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• The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

  Henry Ford

  Men, Able, Predictions

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• The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves of radiation are Hertzian waves of the kind used in broadcasting. About every 1500 million years this ball of radio waves will double in diameter; and it will go on expanding in geometrical progression for ever. Perhaps then I may describe the end of the physical world as-one stupendous broadcast.

  Arthur Eddington

  Years, Radio Waves, Balls

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• The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . 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. Humanity will have turned its back upon the still untrodden heights and will be descending again the long slope that stretches, across a thousand million years of time, down to the shores of the primeval sea.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Space, Race, Years

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• The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be a dream of the future but an everyday job with everyday worries in which they will be engaged.

  Willy Ley

  Dream, Jobs, Space

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• 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

  Lying, Space, Long

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• History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

  Neil Armstrong

  Space Flight, Technological Development, Two

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• We want to build colonies on the Moon, Mars, the Moons of other planets, and even nearby asteroids. We want to make space tourism and commerce routine.

  Daniel Goldin

  Moon, Space, Want

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• 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.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Destiny, Numbers, Space

  Edgar Mitchell (2009). “The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.415, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Flight out of the atmosphere is a simple thing to do and should have been available to the public twenty years ago. Ten years from now, we will have space tourism where you will be able to see the black sky and the curvature of the earth. It will be the most exciting roller coaster ride you can buy.

  Burt Rutan

  Simple, Should Have, Years

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• Market studies suggest space tourism-a rubbernecker's trip to earth orbit-is likely to draw 50,000 passengers a year if the ticket can be pushed below $25,000. That's what tens of thousands of people spend each year on competing trips, such as round-the-world cruises on luxury liners and adventure tours to Antarctica or Mount Everest.

  G. Harry Stine

  Adventure, Years, Luxury

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• Eventually everyone will have the opportunity to travel onto space.

  Lance Bass

  Opportunity, Space, Predictions

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• We'll go into orbit. We'll go to the Moon. This business has no limits.

  Richard Branson

  Moon, Orbit, Limits

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