SPACE QUOTES TO PONDER

*What famous people (and some not famous) have said about why humankind
must expand into space:
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*/To survive
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*/To preserve Earth
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*/To eliminate war
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*/To grow
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*/Time is running out...
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*/To evolve
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*/...To achieve the goal visionaries have foreseen
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Larry Kellogg

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*/To survive
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*"Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be
endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is
obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic
zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If
our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to
our species to venture to other worlds."
Carl Sagan, /Pale Blue Dot,/ 1994

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*/To preserve Earth
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*"Many of the problems that we have today may not have solutions on
Earth. The solutions may lie only in leaving the planet behind. There's
no way we can avoid tearing up the countryside for ores, for fuel, for
raw materials here on Earth--short of everybody dying off."
Keith and Carolyn Henson in /Worlds Beyond,/
ed. New Dimensions Foundation, 1978*

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*/To eliminate war
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*"It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet
Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of
humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing
it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile
Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually
unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and
therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself."
Gerard O'Neill, Foreword to /The Overview Effect/
by Frank White, 1981*

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*/To grow
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*"The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only
if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources
thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our
beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of
House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's
prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part
of a vast system rich in opportunities...'"
Gerard O'Neill, testimony before a congressional
committee, 1978*

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*/Time is running out...
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*"A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of
it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This
new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time. All
of the people of the Earth are in a desperate race against disaster...
To save the Earth we must look beyond it, to interplanetary space. To
present the collapse of civilization and the end of the world as we know
it, we must understand that our planet does not exist in isolation."
Ben Bova, /The High Road/, 1981*

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*/To evolve
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*"It may be that the venture into space is the product of biological
determinism which impels us to explore a new environment when we are
technologically ready."
Richard S. Lewis, /Appointment on the Moon/, 1968*

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*/...To achieve the goal visionaries have foreseen
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*"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*

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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