Walking Quotes
3018 Walking quotes by 2073 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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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
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There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal;…
— Freeman Dyson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.
— Elon Musk
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If you want to have a program for moving out into the universe, you have to think in centuries not in decades.
— Freeman Dyson
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