Moon Quotes

2502 Moon quotes by 1474 unique authors

If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or… — Max Tegmark
It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the… — Elon Musk
To our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet-Mars… — Elon Musk
Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only… — Robert Zubrin
Once the threshold is crossed when there is a self-sustaining level of life in space, then life's long-range future will be secure irrespective of any… — Martin Rees
In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have a precious insurance… — Paul Davies
The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species. — Elon Musk
If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades. — Freeman Dyson
If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only… — Stephen Hawking
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,… — Henry David Thoreau
When the night has come and the land is dark and the moon is the only light we see. No, I won't be afraid, no,… — Ben E. King
You are the treasure custodian, cleaning the moon for me, scouring the sky so the stars would shine bright. — Lisa Loeb
People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon… — Wendy Harmer
In a way, J.F.K. was the high point of the American dream. In order to go to the moon and back, all we did was… — Richard Dreyfuss
Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon.… — Lady Gregory
It's hard not to be excited when you're going to find a way to land on the moon. — Alan Bean
It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place… — Algernon Blackwood
If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and… — Gene Cernan
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've… — Gene Cernan
The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the… — Gene Cernan
We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're… — Gene Cernan
When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon… — Gene Cernan
Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted… — Sharon Creech
I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings just about the… — Laurel Clark

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