Elon Musk Quotes

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

I was a frustrated astronaut all my life. I grew up at a time when space seemed to have no boundaries, and lots of us presumed humans would be living on the moon and landing on Mars.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible.

I firmly believe in what Stephen Hawking says - that if we don't get off this planet, we're going to go berserk. We have to have more space.

I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future.

Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.

We've gotta become the Martians. I'm a Martian - I tell you to become Martians. And we've gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

Earth is the nest, the cradle, and we'll move out of it.

We must become a space-faring nation.

The reality is the majority of us will not get off this planet. So the long run is, some kind of space exploration has to benefit us here on Earth.

Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

Everyone gets very excited about the idea of space travel, but... it's not going to be everybody that gets to go.

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.

Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.

So we say, oh, my goodness; we think we've found another Earth-like planet. We will start trying to figure out how to get there. And I have this strong belief that whatever we think we can do, whatever we can dream, we can do.

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

Aside from communications satellites, space is devoid of industry.

Space is going to be commonplace.