180 Quotes About Space-exploration

Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.

Pushing the boundaries and uniting the world: That’s what Mars One is about.

We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein.

Ideally, the ISS program will just be one more incremental step on an expanding, incredible journal of exploration and understanding, taking us higher and farther.

I lay on my back, surprised at how calm and focused I felt, strapped to four and a half million pounds of explosives.

The venture into space is meaningless unless it coincides with a certain interior expansion, an ever-growing universe within, to correspond with the far flight of the galaxies our telescopes follow from without.

Even if the aliens are short, dour, and sexually obsessed—if they’re here, I want to know about them.

Apocalyptic explosions, dead reactors, terrorists, mass murder, death-slugs, and now a blindness plague. This is a terrible planet. We should not have come here.

We cannot become a successful race of space explorers with traditional rocket and jet propulsion drive - we need to come up with a cooler and lasting alternative.