Voices

Quote by Frank White

"War and space exploration are alternative uses of the assertive, exploratory energies that are so characteristic of human beings. They may also be mutually exclusive because if one occurs on a massive scale, the other probably will not."

Carl Sagan

"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds."

Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

"In the .universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail"

Quote by Sir Herbert Read

“The artist and the community are profoundly interrelated. Traditionally, artists have been channels for the tempo, the tone and the intensity of their society. The function of their art is to express feeling and transmit understanding. In a genuine work of art one recognizes what is being shared by our common humanity. Artists achieve this through an intuitive appreciation of the appropriate form and through the use of materials made available to them by the circumstances of their time." 

Quote by Krafft Arnold Ehricke

"While civilization is more than a high material living standard, it is nevertheless based on material abundance. It does not thrive on abject poverty nor in an atmosphere of resignation and hopelessness. It needs vigor as well as vision. Therefore the end objectives of solar system exploration are social objectives in the sense that they relate to, or are dictated by, present and future human needs."

Quote by Issaac Asimov

"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 what is otherwise the sure destruction of all that humanity has struggled to achieve for 50,000 years?"

Quote by Ludwig von Mises

"Wars are harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds; war destroys."

Quote by Dennis Wingo

"We go to Mars to take our civilization there. We go to the Moon to save our civilization here."

Quote by Gerard K. O’Neill

"Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?"

Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

"The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."