Daniel Goldin Quotes

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

When we explore other planets, we learn a lot about our own.

NASA is my favorite website. The universe with its abstract nature attracts me. The abstract element in my poetry comes from there.

What we do at NASA is inspiring. It's reaching, it's visionary, and it inspires people on Earth to try hard things.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

Space offers extraordinary potential for commerce and adventure, for new innovations and new tests of will. As Americans, we can't help but reach for the stars. It's our nature. It's our destiny.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on.

Space is something which makes us question our role here on Earth. It brings out the best of our hopes and dreams.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Space is going to be commonplace.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

Space is an inspirational concept that allows you to dream big.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

We always had National Geographic and Astronomy magazines and Popular Mechanics lying around the house. I got interested in exploration and different parts of the world and different parts of the universe just from seeing those things around the house and the different discussions we had as a family.

Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.

Great telescopes like the Kecks allow us to explore the River of Time back toward its source.

When you look at the darkest areas in space, you feel that there's something out there that we don't know about.

The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.