Moon Quotes

2502 Moon quotes by 1474 unique authors

If atom stocks are inexhaustible, Greater than power of living things to count, If Nature's same creative power were present too To throw the atoms… — Lucretius
Since stars appear to be suns, and suns, according to the common opinion, are bodies that serve to enlighten, warm, and sustain a system of… — William Herschel
We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own. . . .… — Lord Kelvin
The Universe is a pretty big place... And the one thing I know about nature is it hates to waste anything. So I guess I'd… — John Burroughs
A single message from space will show that it is possible to live through technological adolescence. . . . It is possible that the future… — Carl Sagan
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators. — Michio Kaku
I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms we can't conceive. Just as a chimpanzee can't understand quantum theory, it could… — Martin Rees
In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves. — Carl Sagan
Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. All kinds of danger… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed… — Timothy Leary
Sooner or later for good or ill, a united mankind, equipped with science and power, will probably turn its attention to the other planets, not… — Olaf Stapledon
It is in the long run essential to the growth of any new and high civilization that small groups of men can escape from their… — Freeman Dyson
There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of escaping… — Isaac Asimov
For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Until now in world's history, whenever we've had a dark age, its been temporary and local. And other parts of the world have been doing… — Isaac Asimov
There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal;… — Freeman Dyson
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because… — Robert A. Heinlein
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power.… — Ben Bova
The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as… — Stephen Hawking
If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a crime of unutterable… — Marshall Savage
If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space.… — Frank J. Tipler
Earth has provided a stable platform for the evolution of life over 4 billion years. But that lease is limited; we know for sure that… — Robert Shapiro
Unless people can see broad vistas of unused resources in front of them, the belief in limited resources tends to follow as a matter of… — Robert Zubrin
More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us .… — Gerard K. O'Neill
If man survives for as long as the least successful of the dinosaurs-those creatures whom we often deride as nature's failures-then we may be certain… — Arthur C. Clarke

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