Conquest Quote by Gus Grissom Download Open image “The conquest of space is worth the risk of life.” — Gus Grissom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conquest Life NASA Risk Space
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
The question to ask is whether the risk of traveling to space is worth the benefit. The answer is an unequivocal yes, but not… — William E. Burrows Copy Share Image
I believe space exploration is an absolute necessity for the survival of human race. — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
All space exploration is risky. As an astronaut, I had to decide each and every time I went to space whether or not to… — John M. Grunsfeld Copy Share Image
Space travel leading to skylife is vital to human survival, because the question is not whether we will be hit by an asteroid, but… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
I think the greatest danger of the promise of space travel is that it can lead us to be cavalier about the world we… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
There are so many benefits to be derived from space exploration and exploitation; why not take what seems to me the only chance of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Of course risk is part of spaceflight. We accept some of that to achieve greater goals in exploration and find out more about ourselves… — Lisa Nowak Copy Share Image
Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see. — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring —… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is what I wanted all along, and after I finished my studies and begun the job of testing jet aircraft, well, there wasn't… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
In the Air Force, you get some weird orders, but you obey them no matter what. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This could happen on any flight. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
It was especially hard for me, as a professional pilot. In all of my years of flying - including combat in Korea - this… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
The flight crew for the orbital mission has been picked, and I'm not on it. Of course I've been feeling pretty low for the… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I did not think my chances were very big when I saw some of the other men who were competing for the team. They… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
As I told a friend of mine once who asked me why I joined Mercury, I think if I had been alive 150 years… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
There is a clarity, a brilliance to space that simply doesn't exist on earth, even on a cloudless summer's day in the Rockies, and… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I suppose I built my share of model airplanes, but I can't remember that I was a flying fanatic. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I thought it would be good for the engineers and workmen who were building my spacecraft to see the pilot who would have to… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
I had thought training for Mercury was rigorous. Once we got caught up in the Gemini training program, our Mercury training looked pretty soft. — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
If we die, we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us… — Gus Grissom Copy Share Image
Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent… — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The film The Conquest will be seen on many different levels and the American point of view is always more technical. The French are… — Xavier Durringer Copy Share Image
Misgovernment is of four kinds, often in combination. They are: 1) tyranny or oppression, of which history provides so many well-known examples that they… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
