When I went to the moon I was a pragmatic test pilot. But when I saw the planet Earth floating in the vastness of space the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s. — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Our success and our understanding is that all beings are right inside, the deeper we go inside ourselves. There's a saying that Unity uses… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
To kill a citizen of our own country is evil, but to kill a citizen of another country is 'good.' — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
When I learned that aliens really do exist, I wasn't too surprised. But what did shock me when I started investigating extra-terrestrial reports a decade ago is the extent to which the proof has been hushed up. It isn't just the US government which has kept quiet about alien visits. It would be arrogant of an American like myself to… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
I believe we have these capabilities. It doesn't mean that we will use them. Our future is not assured here. It's not clear that we will survive our own folly, but we have a rare opportunity to do that if we listen and see the messages that nature is showing at us right now, that the finiteness of our own… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
What we're starting to see is a quantum biology, it being applied in biology and cosmology and a host of other sciences, because it… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Big Bang has gone away, but as far as Super String, that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share
Unfortunately, religions have become a part of the problem instead of part of the solution. We have fought our wars in the name of… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Another way to think of this is there are now 6.8 billion people on this planet, and half of them weren't even born when… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
We all know that UFOs are real. All we need to ask is where do they come from, and what do they want? — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image