Quotes About Discovery

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen.

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful!

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

I am absolutely certain that life can exist in outer space, move around, find a new aqueous environment.

The characteristic of great innovators and great companies is they see a space that others do not. They don't just listen to what people tell them; they actually invent something new, something that you didn't know you needed, but the moment you see it, you say, 'I must have it.'

'Space finder' is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it's followed me ever since.

We had 83 different space research projects on my last space flight in '98, and they covered the whole gamut.

Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.

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

We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.

Radio astronomers are aware in the back of their minds that if there are other civilizations out there in space, it might be the radio astronomers who first pick up the signal.

The time will come when we permit more people in space.

I think the more people that can go up to space and look back is great, but it's not just this overview and look back effect. There's also a lot of concrete gains from getting more people up in space.

I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.

Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.

With so much conflict in the world, space exploration can be a beacon of hope.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.

Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.