Space Exploration Quotes

• Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Stars, Ignorance, Humanity

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• A sense of the unknown has always lured mankind and the greatest of the unknowns of today is outer space. The terrors, the joys and the sense of accomplishment are epitomized in the space program.

  William Shatner

  Space, Accomplishment, Joy

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• We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

  James Lovelock

  Space, Looks, Earth

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• To boldly go where no one has gone before

  Stephen Hawking

  Courage, Gone, Cider

  Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking (2009). “George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Kennedy, John F. (1963). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1962”, p.151, Best Books on

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• Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

  Bob Barr

  Technology, Yield, Medicine

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• The choice is: the Universe...or nothing.

  H. G. Wells

  Choices, Exploration, Universe

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• To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of several tens of kilometers, to land on its satellite or even on its surface, what can be more fantastic? From the moment of using rocket devices a new great era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.

  Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

  Distance, Moon, Rocks

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• God has no intention of setting a limit to the efforts of man to conquer space.

  Pope Pius XII

  Men, Space, Effort

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• Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this Earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars.

  H. G. Wells

  Stars, Space, Forever

  "The Outline of History". Book by H. G. Wells, Ch. 41, 1920.

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• This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.

  Hermann Oberth

  Goal, World, Life Is

  Hermann Oberth (1957). “Man Into Space: New Projects for Rocket and Space Travel”

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• Your mysterious mountains I wish to see closer. May I land my kinky machine?

  Jimi Hendrix

  Land, Wish, Mountain

  Song: 3rd Stone From The Sun

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• Everyone, red state, blue state, everyone supports space exploration.

  Bill Nye

  Blue, Space, Support

  "Bill Nye: U.S. risks losing its space edge" by Richard Galant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2012.

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• We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Space, Apollo

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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  It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

  Neil Armstrong

  Eye, Space, Blue

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

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• First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.

  John F. Kennedy

  Believe, Moon, Men

  Special message to joint session of Congress on urgent national needs, 25 May 1961

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• I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.

  Annabella Sciorra

  Believe, Ocean, Intelligent

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• Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Responsibility, Men, Space

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• There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

  Wernher von Braun

  Business, Science, Space

  Attributed in Reader's Digest, May 1961

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• I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Believe, Reality, Space

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  Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

  Wernher von Braun

  Men, Space, Want

  TIME Magazine, February 17, 1958.

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• We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Dirty, Moving, Eye

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

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• Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Keys, Space, Achievement

  Speech to Congress on Urgent National Needs, delivered 25 May 1961, Washington, D.C.

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• ... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Space, United States

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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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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