“Don’t tell me that man doesn’t belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go–and he’ll do plenty well when he gets there.”
Wernher von Braun, Time magazine, 1958
“We have said a great deal about the advantages of migration into space, but not all can be said or even imagined.”
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, The Aims of Astronautics, 1929
“Worlds may freeze and suns may perish, but there stirs something within us now that can never die again.”
H. G. Wells, lecture at Royal Institution of London, 1902
“In my own view, the important achievement of Apollo was a demonstration that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.”
Neil Armstrong, press conference, 1999
“As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the moon and Jupiter]… Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.”
Johannes Kepler, letter to Galileo, 1610
A lot more reading material at SpaceQuotes.com, where I got these snippets. Enjoy!
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