Mars Quotes - Page 6

• What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking

  Buzz Aldrin, Leonard David (2013). “Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration”, p.52, National Geographic Books

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• The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on another world in our solar system: Mars. I firmly believe we will establish permanence on that planet. And in reaching for that goal, we can cultivate commercial development of the moon, the asteroid belt, the Red Planet itself and beyond.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Believe, Ambition, Moon

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• Mars could very well be a staging location for the resources of the asteroid belt. We have to learn how to get a payback somewhere, but it's beyond Mars that the real payoff will come from minerals.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Real, Asteroids, Location

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• That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.

  Percival Lowell

  Nature, Space, May

  "Fantastically Wrong: One Astronomer’s Quest to Expose the Alien-Built Canals of Mars" by Matt Simon, www.wired.com. May 21, 2014.

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• I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those people are just dead in their Nikes. But they want to believe in something.

  David Duchovny

  Nike, Believe, Thinking

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• Did the Pilgrims on the Mayflower sit around Plymouth Rock waiting for a return trip? They came here to settle. And that's what we should be doing on Mars. When you go to Mars, you need to have made the decision that you're there permanently. The more people we have there, the more it can become a sustaining environment. Except for very rare exceptions, the people who go to Mars shouldn't be coming back. Once you get on the surface, you're there.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Rocks, People, Decision

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• I'm convinced that sending people to Mars is so expensive that if you go once and bring the people back and then go again and bring the people back, we're eventually going to run out of money. But what if we send people the first time and they don't come back? What if they stay there?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Running, People, What If

  "Buzz Aldrin Is Not All That "Impressed With Walking on the Moon" by Eric Spitznagel, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 25, 2010.

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• Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.

  Anne Enright

  Change, Powerless

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• The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more - perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sacrifice, Average, Cost

  "A Continent Bleeds" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. May 3, 2000.

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• Dominating all earth from outer space will have an out-of-this-world price tag, perhaps more than $1 trillion. A question: Why reach for the stars with guns in our hands? Are there weapons of mass destruction on Mars?

  Dennis Kucinich

  Stars, Gun, Mass Destruction

  Congressional Record, Volume 151, Part 8, May 19, 2005.

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• Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.

  Jason Mraz

  Dream, Song, Writing

  "Jason Mraz Goes to School". Christina Fuoco, Rolling Stone, September 2, 2007.

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• I guess those of us who have been with NASA kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

  Alan Shepard

  Pride, Apollo, Excitement

  "It's Been 25 Years Since We Took That Giant Leap For Mankind - Moon Odyssey" by James Endrst, The Hartford Courant, p. B1, July 08, 1994.

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• I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around the Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn.Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientiest waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week.On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Fun, Holiday, Sadness

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• The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Tired

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

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• The year 1999, seventh month, [or simply "sept"] From the sky will come a great King of Terror. To bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, Before and after Mars to reign by good luck.

  Nostradamus

  Kings, Good Luck, Years

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• About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

  James Nicoll

  People, Stories, Firsts

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• Nigerians are everywhere. There's an old joke, particularly about the Ibos, that when you finally land on Mars, you're going to find a Nigerian there who has a shop that is selling Coca-Cola--who took a speculative trip 20 years ago and has been waiting for everyone else to arrive.

  Chris Abani

  Years, Land, Waiting

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• I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

  Billy Connolly

  Home, Rottweilers, Fans

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• Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that could be harmed by the human hubbub, life does not already exist there. If not, then by all means build cities, plant forests and fill lakes and streams with trout -- bring life to Mars and Mars to life. We'll then be the Martians we've been dreaming about for all these years.

  David Grinspoon

  Dream, Mean, Lakes

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• Next time someone tells me they believe in God, I'll say 'Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?...' If they say 'Just God. I only believe in the one God,' I'll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don't believe in 2,870 gods, and they don't believe in 2,869.

  Ricky Gervais

  Believe, Odin, Jupiter

  "Ricky Gervais: Why I’m an Atheist". blogs.wsj.com. December 19, 2010.

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• In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.

  Paul Davies

  Dog, Garden, Rocks

  Paul Davies (2015). “The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• Calms appear, when Storms are past;
  Love will have his Hour at last:
  Nature is my kindly Care;
  Mars destroys, and I repair;
  Take me, take me, while you may,
  Venus comes not ev'ry Day.

  John Dryden

  Love, Past, Storm

  John Dryden (1784). “The poetical works of John Dryden”, p.233

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• There is no pleasure pure and simple, and some care always
  comes to mar our joys.

  Ovid

  Simple, Joy, Care

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• Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the teapot, but that doesn't mean you treat the likelihood of its existence as being on all fours with its non-existence.

  Richard Dawkins

  Mean, Atheism, Orbit

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• No created powers can mar our Lord Jesus' music, nor spill our song of joy. Let us then be glad and rejoice in the salvation of our Lord

  Samuel Rutherford

  Inspiring, Music, Christian

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.88

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