Mars Quotes - Page 13

• Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people.

  Ray Bradbury

  Years, People, Empty

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

  David Jeremiah

  Wisdom, Love Is, Devastation

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• I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.

  Daniel Tosh

  Believe, Space, Cameras

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• The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

  Immanuel Kant

  Future, Earth

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• It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.

  Elon Musk

  Space, Fixers, Planets

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• What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

  Robert E. Lee

  Beautiful, Kindness, War

  Robert E. Lee, Ben Wynne (2004). “Recollections and Letters”, p.84, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• I think there would be no shortage of applicants to the government astronaut corps to be settlers on the planet Mars. And I think this would be very inspiring.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Thinking, Government, Would Be

  "A Mission To Mars". Interview with David Levin, www.pbs.org. November 18, 2010.

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• People feel that building a rocket for Mars is an exciting project, but if you see the refugees around the world and the millions of homeless people, then for me it's insulting that people are fantasizing about leaving planet Earth and going wherever.

  Pedro Reyes

  People, Leaving, Insulting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian.

  Elon Musk

  Solar System

  "Elon Musk Wants to Put Man on Mars in '12 to 15 Years'" by David Wright, abcnews.go.com. August 6, 2012.

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• You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

  Elon Musk

  Greenhouse Gases, Greenhouses, Warm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable.

  Elon Musk

  Ocean, Rockets, Ships

  «Elon Musk: Triumph of His Will» by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2012.

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• Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don't ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Country, Moving, Mean

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• Exploring Mars is a far different venture from Apollo expeditions to the moon; it necessitates leaving our home planet on lengthy missions with a constrained return capability.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Home, Moon, Leaving

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.166, National Geographic Books

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• Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world into a barren landscape. By exploring and understanding Mars, we may gain key insights into the past and future of our own world.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Past, Keys, Understanding

  "Commentary: Let's aim for Mars". www.cnn.com. June 23, 2009.

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• The guys who walk on Mars are going to be historic.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Guy, Historic, Walks

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• You need to live in a dome initially but over time you could terraform Mars to look like Earth and eventually walk around outside without anything on. ... So it's a fixer-upper of a planet.

  Elon Musk

  Needs, Looks, Earth

  "Elon Musk on Mars: 'It's a fixer-upper of a planet'". www.cbsnews.com. September 21, 2012.

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• By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Summer, Adventure, Moon

  "It's time to aim for Mars" by Buzz Aldrin, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2009.

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• I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.

  Edward Norton

  School, Kids, Remember

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• The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Eye, Science, Moon

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• Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Two, Planets, Evolve

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• The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Challenges, Benefits, Earth

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• If we go back to the moon, we're guaranteed second, maybe third place because while we are spending all that money, Russia has its eye on Mars. Landing people on the moon will be terribly consuming of resources we don't have. It sounds great - 'Let's go back. This time we're going to stay.' I don't know why you would want to stay on the moon.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Eye, Moon, Russia

  "We must aim for Mars, says moonwalker". Interview with James M. Clash, www.smh.com.au. May 24, 2013.

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• The life expectancy of people going to Mars may be decreased by the higher level of radiation that they receive.

  Buzz Aldrin

  People, Radiation, Levels

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• To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Years, Chinese

  "Buzz Aldrin on Why We Should Go to Mars Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/buzz-aldrin-on-why-we-should-go-to-mars-66260324/#muQovUaWlr5GveW8.99 Give the gift of Smithsonian magazine for only $12! http://bit.ly/1cGUiGv Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter". Interview with Amy Crawford, www.smithsonianmag.com. May 19, 2013.

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• 'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.

  Junot Diaz

  Princess, Imagination, Generations

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