Edgar Mitchell Quotes

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• Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has…
• There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomenon, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural... we should strive to fill those gaps…
• Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything…
• 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.
• We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun…
• I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is…
• You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about…
• Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
• We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.
• At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized…
• I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth.
• We are not learning to view ourselves as an advanced, evolving civilization. That is what we really must learn to do, in due course, if…
• The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost…

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