"When I was growing up it was really cool to be a scientist or engineer. We need to make science cool again." ~ Sally Ride
"When you advance frontiers, heroes are made." ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
"It matters to me. People don't get in line to get autographs of the land rover." ~ Congressman Frank Wolf, in response to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's statement that it "didn't matter" if America or China got a manned mission to the moon.
"All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct." ~ Carl Sagan
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." ~ Author Douglas Adams
"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another." ~ Plato
"Our two greatest problems are gravity and paperwork. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming." ~ Werner von Braun
"It's human nature to stretch, to go, to see, to understand. Exploration is not a choice really: it's an imperative." ~ Astronaut Michael Collins
"We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special." ~ Stephen Hawking
"Every so often, I like to stick my head out the window, look up, and smile for a satellite picture." ~ Comedian Steven Wright
"The Mars research has advanced my life in no capacity. How has it helped your life? Looks like Arizona, tastes like chicken. Billions of dollars. I think we should just blow it up and sniff it as it drifts past." ~ Actor Charlie Sheen
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