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Quote by Margaret Mead

“We are at a point in history where a proper attention to space, and especially near space, may be absolutely crucial in bringing the world together.”

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Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

“The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological Eden which never existed...It is only by the rational use of technology to control and guide what technology is doing that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desireable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.”

Facts Use Social Space Technology Imagine Effects Weapons Guides Rational Retreat Eden Social Life Use Of Technology

Author:C.P. Snow

“When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back.”

Men Should Turns Goal Space

Book:Plutarch's Morals

Source: Plutarch's Morals

“Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the same.”

Space Traveler Journal Pioneers Space Travel Wagons

Author:Christa McAuliffe

“It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss them. I won't have an opportunity to see them again, unless they stop by the house. Now during the summer, I got lots of notes; kids would stop by the house. I'd be pulling weeds or something and they would come up and give me a hug and say, 'Oh, I can't believe it, this is so wonderful!' and just get very excited about it. It was hard not being in school. I would have loved to have gone back to school.”