Bacteria Quote by Richard E. Berendzen

Discovering traces of life on Mars would be of tremendous scientific significance: The first time that any signs of extraterrestrial life had ever been…

— Nick Bostrom

There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the…

— Carl Sagan

“When the first humans set foot on Mars, the moment will be more significant in terms of technology, philosophy, history, and exploration than any…

— Stephen L. Petranek

“All we know for sure is that if some astronomer turned a telescope to a far-off star cluster tonight and found incontrovertible evidence of…

— Sam Kean

The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy over the…

— Seth Shostak

We go to learn about our solar system, to search for life, and to understand what happened to Mars so we avoid it ourselves.

— Rick Tumlinson

A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence…

— Paul Davies

Exploring and colonizing Mars can bring us new scientific understanding of climate change, of how planet-wide processes can make a warm and wet world…

— Buzz Aldrin

We want people to continue learning new things about what space does to the human body. It's important for us to understand that and…

— Peggy Whitson

If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as…

— Sylvia Earle

Mars would seem, to me, to be the best place to focus our collective effort as a species... I think people would like to…

— James Ransone