Interstellar Voyages Quotes

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.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

To deliver vast new resources to humanity, we must pioneer and occupy the moon, Mars, and perhaps even beyond.

Seeing the space future through science fiction can be difficult. Much science fiction of the early era, the 1950s through the '70s, took an expansionist view.

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

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

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

I believe there's life on other planets, but I don't believe that UFOs are saucers from another world.

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

A time will come when men will stretch out their eyes. They should see planets like our Earth.

I hope that 'House of Suns' functions as an independent novel.

Not only shall we be able to cruise in space, …

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.