Rockets Quotes

• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Military, War

  Speech to American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., 16 Apr. 1953

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• A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.

  Jose Bergamin

  Stars, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.

  Jose Bergamin

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Reeds

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• Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

  Stephen Hawking

  Travel, Space, Return

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  The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Peace, War, Gun

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1966). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965”, p.398, Best Books on

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• It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Men, Space

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Build a rocket ship and leave the earth!

  Jon Heder

  Earth, Ships

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• The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

  Wernher von Braun

  Science, Planets, Landing

  "Apollo in Perspective : Spaceflight Then and Now". Book by Jonathan Allday, 1999.

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• What I do is not rocket science, but I sure do love it.

  Kyle Chandler

  Rocket Science

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I recall a lecture by John Glenn, the first American to go into orbit. When asked what went through his mind while he was crouched in the rocket nose-cone, awaiting blast-off, he replied, "I was thinking that the rocket has 20,000 components, and each was made by the lowest bidder."

  Martin Rees

  Thinking, Mind, Orbit

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• Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.

  Sally Ride

  Way, Tough, Failing

  Interview With Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

  Neil Young

  Creating, Satellites, Spaceships

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• The odds of me coming into the rocket business, not knowing anything about rockets, not having ever built anything, I mean, I would have to be insane if I thought the odds were in my favor.

  Elon Musk

  Mean, Odds, Knowing

  "U.S., China, Russia, Elon Musk: Entrepreneur's "insane" vision becomes reality". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. May 22, 2012.

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• When you launch in a rocket, you're not really flying that rocket. You're just sort of hanging on.

  Michael P. Anderson

  Flying, Hanging On

  "Disaster in space" by Robin McKie, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2003.

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• It's absolutely stupid that we live without an ozone layer. We have men, we've got rockets, we've got saran wrap - fix it!

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Stupid, Humor

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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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• Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Children, Military

  Speech in Washington, 16 Apr. 1953, in Public Papers of Presidents 1953 (1960) p. 182

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• Astronomy may be revolutionized more than any other field of science by observations from above the atmosphere. Study of the planets, the Sun, the stars, and the rarified matter in space should all be profoundly influenced by measurements from balloons, rockets, probes and satellites. ... In a new adventure of discovery no one can foretell what will be found, and it is probably safe to predict that the most important new discovery that will be made with flying telescopes will be quite unexpected and unforeseen.

  Lyman Spitzer

  Stars, Adventure, Science

  Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 17, No. 5, p. 191, 194, May 1961.

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• It will be possible in a few more years to build radio controlled rockets which can be steered into such orbits beyond the limits of the atmosphere and left to broadcast scientific information back to the Earth. A little later, manned rockets will be able to make similar flights with sufficient excess power to break the orbit and return to Earth. (1945) [Predicting communications satellites.]

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Science, Years

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• Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.

  Mohammed Omar

  Believe, Scary, Grace

  "Cracks appear in coalition" by Ewen MacAskill, Ian Black and Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2001.

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• Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It’s all just a use of your thinking.

  Michael Nesmith

  Moon, Thinking, Race

  Interview with Ken Plume, asitecalledfred.com. May 2003.

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• I'm so uncoordinated, I can't really do that much, so my specialty is standing in one spot or holding on to something, like an exploding rocket or a jetski.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Holding On, Spots, Exploding

  "Johnny Knoxville's house of pain" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers.

  Joss Whedon

  Party, Emotional, Two

  "50 Joss Whedon Quotes For His 50th Birthday" by Kevin P. Sullivan, www.mtv.com. June 23, 2014.

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• To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne. I am bold enough to say that such a man-made voyage will never occur regardless of all future advances.

  Lee De Forest

  Dream, Future, Men

  "De Forest Says Space Travel Is Impossible". "Lewiston Morning Tribune" Newspaper, February 25, 1957.

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