Predictions Quotes

342 Predictions quotes by 251 unique authors

The exploration of the planets is now closer to us in time than the exploration of Africa by Stanley and Livingstone. — Arthur C. Clarke
If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within… — Wernher von Braun
Space travel is utter bilge. I don't think anybody will ever put up enough money to do such a thing. . . . It is… — Richard van der Riet Woolley
U.S. has lost a battle more important and greater than Pearl Harbor. — Edward Teller
Really exotic methods of propulsion . . . will have to be devised to get there. How it will be done, I do not know.… — Edward Teller
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the… — Arthur C. Clarke
I feel that I'm in on the ground floor of something that human beings will be concentrating on for the next 1,000 years-if we don't… — Deke Slayton
The first man-made satellite to orbit the earth was named Sputnik. The first living creature in space was Laika. The first rocket to the Moon… — John F. Kennedy
But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and… — Robert A. Heinlein
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are… — Wernher von Braun
The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for… — John F. Kennedy
Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle… — Arthur C. Clarke
By the year 2000 we will undoubtedly have a sizable operation on the Moon, we will have achieved a manned Mars landing and it's entirely… — Wernher von Braun
There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather. — Wernher von Braun
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life. Few of the others, however, had the possibility of direct gains in knowledge… — Neil Armstrong
My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first… — Wernher von Braun
Many people are shrinking from the future and from participation in the movement toward a new, expanded reality. And, like homesick travelers abroad, they are… — Margaret Mead
The shuttle tomorrow is truly like laying the last spike on the transcontinental railroad, only much more so. And whether or not we're going to… — Jerry Brown
As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy. — William Proxmire
The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive… — Rusty Schweickart
Before another century is done it will be hard for people to imagine a time when humanity was confined to one world, and it will… — Isaac Asimov
We risk great peril if we kill off this spirit of adventure, for we cannot predict how and in what seemingly unrelated fields it will… — James A. Michener
The seemingly insuperable difficulties of deep-space travel suggest an intention to keep us fixed at home in our own solar system, and the physical nature… — Fred Hoyle
Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing… — Arthur C. Clarke
History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight. — Neil Armstrong

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