"You almost wish you could turn off the……" — Rusty Schweickart
"You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet."
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16 Quotes by Rusty Schweickart
Rusty Schweickart has 16 quotes on this site.
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As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how…
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From the moon, the Earth is so small and so fragile, and such a precious little spot in that Universe,…
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The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment…
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This whole issue of limits to growth, which provides a psychological, as well as a physical, cap on potential expansion…
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All of us know today the value of communications satellites, weather satellites, resources satellites, etc.
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It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
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Landing on the moon was a dream that millions of kids have had for hundreds of years.
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It is through science that we understand the world around us, and by understanding the world around us, we not…
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We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to…
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No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.
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Asteroids are deep-space bodies orbiting the Sun, not the Earth, and traveling to one would mean sending humans into solar…
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By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings,…
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In my opinion, all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those…
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I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
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I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.
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It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered…
— Lewis Carroll
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I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could…
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We're going to win this war, you know, now that our army's together. But the world doesn't care who wins.…
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When you drop a glass or a plate to the ground, it makes a crashing sound. When a window shatters,…
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I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost…
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It's like screaming that no one can hear. You almost feel ashamed that someone could be that impotant that without…
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When its over and its gone, you almost wish that you could have all that bad stuff back so you…
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