Space exploration Quote by Pierre Boulle Download Open image ““In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance...”” — Pierre Boulle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Space exploration Technology
“Resistance to simplification is based on the belief that every additional feature, part, and function represents an improvement.” — Dan Ward Copy Share Image
“...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getting to the point where… — Elaine St. James Copy Share Image
...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share
“Simplification is often the difference between doing something you know you should do and putting it off.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“To simplify is about enhancing our ability to focus on things that really matter, to deliberately choose our priorities, and to refuse to let… — Carolyn J. Rasmus Copy Share Image
“...the more you try to simplify things, the more you complicate them.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.” — Susan Maushart Copy Share Image
“You can ask a President to provide for two years ahead, maybe for twenty or even thirty years, but not for two hundred or… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“The army had little attraction for him, but it afforded him the possibility of taking a great step toward his goal. After all, if… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“I racked my brains to discover some sense in the events I had witnessed. I needed this intellectual exercise to escape from the despair… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“This time I felt it was impossible that they could entertain further doubt as to my true condition. Alas, I did not yet know… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“No country in the world can continue to spend what we are sacrificing for the moon without rapidly being reduced to utter ruin.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“But once an original book has been written-and no more than one or two appear in a century-men of letters imitate it, in other… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“... the heritage of mankind is not the earth but the entire universe,” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“But how could one hold this against her when faced with the perfection of her body? Suddenly” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“The moon, the serene moon, was creating a conflict of opinion in America almost as violent as the racial problem.” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape,… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“To rise from the national level to the level of mankind, I call that progress. And that's what's so admirable. For a man to… — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
No one, it has been said, will ever look at the Moon in the same way again. More significantly can one say that no… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
“You have business and pleasure to attend to. As an expert in both, allow me to advise you to put them aside for the… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive,… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Many people object to “wasting money in space” yet have no idea how much is actually spent on space exploration. The CSA’s budget, for… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
“Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to ‘conquer’ Earth, to steal their ‘precious’ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
India has no dearth of brave young men and women and if they get the opportunity and help then we can compete with other… — Atal Bihari Vajpayee Copy Share Image
Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate,… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
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