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“When earth as if on evil dreams Looks back upon her wars, And the white light of Christ outstreams From the red disc of Mars, His fame, who led the stormy van Of battle, well may cease; But never that which crowns the man Whose victory was peace.”

Ifs Men Wells Looks May War Dream Light Earth Evil Christ White He Man Victory Battle Fame Red Cease Crowns Mars Vans Stormy Discs White Light Light Of Christ

Book:Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

Source: Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier

“In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.”

Ideas Earth Study Spread Accepted Mars Prospects Plausible Traction

Author:Paul Davies

“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.”

Should Earth Asks Answers Numbers Growing Planets Moon Appeals Site Mars Somewhere Else Advancing

Author:Gerard K. O'Neill

“Unfortunately, all life on earth - the only life we know - represents, for all its current variety, the results of a single experiment , for every earthly species evolved from the common ancestry of a single origin. We desperately need a repetition of the experiment (several would be better, but let's not be greedy!) in order to make a judgement. Mars represents our first real hope for a second experiment - the sine qua non - for any proper answer for the question of questions.”

Knows Needs Firsts Real Would Be Earth Order Answers Results Common Species Currents Experiments Variety Judgement Mars Repetition Greedy Ancestry

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“Dominating all earth from outer space will have an out-of-this-world price tag, perhaps more than $1 trillion. A question: Why reach for the stars with guns in our hands? Are there weapons of mass destruction on Mars?”

World Hands Earth Stars Space This World Weapons Mass Gun Destruction Mars Weapons Of Mass Destruction Mass Destruction Tag Outer Space Dominating Price Tag

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.”

May Earth Mars Incompetence

Author:Agnes Repplier

“Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.”

People Years Earth Couple Mars

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.”

Way Earth Challenges Environment Benefits Significant Mars

Author:Buzz Aldrin