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“If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.”

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Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson was an American science fiction author known for his rich imagination and profound insights into science fiction. His works span a wide range of genres from space opera to hard science fiction, having a profound impact on the development of science fiction literature. more

“Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the secrets of the tropical jungles have been revealed. The highest mountains of the earth have heard the voice of man. But this does not mean that the youth of the future has no new worlds to vanquish. It means only that the explorer must change his methods.”

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Author:Roy Chapman Andrews

“When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have never been involved in exploring the heavens, but this is not so. Ancient African empires - Mali, Songhai, Egypt - had scientists, astronomers. The fact is that space and its resources belong to all of us, not to any one group.”

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Author:Mae Jemison

“When we think how narrow and devious this path of nature is, how dimly we can trace it, for all our lamps of science, and how from the darkness which girds it round great and terrible possibilities loom ever shadowly upwards, it is a bold and a confident man who will put a limit to the strange by-oaths into which the human spirit may wander.”

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“NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.”

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Author:Robert Ballard

“Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.”

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Author:Robert Ballard

“The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.”

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Author:Robert Ballard

“My final question: Why are we not looking at moving out onto the sea? Why do we have programs to build a habitation on Mars and we have programs to look at colonizing the Moon but we do not have a program looking at how we colonize our own planet, and the technology is at hand!”

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Author:Robert Ballard