“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.” HumansEndsEarthMotivationValuesAsksLossNumbersFictionTalentAdventureHugeSixCommitmentDirectScience FictionBillionsTinyIdeologyHuman LifeThe End Of The DayComparisonRelativeContinuingSurvivingParticipantsRoboticsSpace TravelDispassionateVicariousSpaceflightScience Fiction MovieRelative Value Author:James Van Allen
“It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from roughly 1 in 100 to 1 in 100,000. The higher figures come from the working engineers, and the very low figures from management.” HumansDifferencesLossOpinionFiguresHigherLowsManagementSafetyEnormousRangeHuman LifeAviationVehicleEngineersProbabilityDifferences Of Opinion Book:What Do You Care What Other People Think? Source: What Do You Care What Other People Think?
“Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.” ShouldHumansPersonsLongReasonLife IsAsksFoundFriendshipLossDangerousSeriousFriendsCastsHuman LifeAbandonPossessedCompelledChillTossSerious Things Author:Thomas Moore
“Good generalship is a realization that... you've got to try and figure out how to accomplish your mission with a minimum loss of human life.” TryingHumansLossFiguresAccomplishMissionsRealizationHuman LifeMinimum Author:Norman Schwarzkopf
“You cannot measure the loss of a human life. It's all the things a person was, all their dreams, all the people who loved them, all they hoped to be and could give back to the world.” PeopleWorldGivingHumansPersonsDreamLossHuman LifeGiving Back Author:Joan Bauer
“There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.” WayHumansEndsStoriesLossComplicatedOne WayHuman LifeKeep GoingRelationships Ending Author:Charlie Kaufman
“We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.” KnowsFeelsTryingYearsHumansI CanJoyEnergyLossWasteHundredGainsHuman LifeFiftyConceptionBitternessHuman ThoughtGreatest Wisdom Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America