“After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.” StatesAmericaNextNationsSpaceInterestingUnitedUnited StatesExplorationHorizonExploitationApolloVisionariesSpace Exploration Author:Gene Cernan
“Only a dreamer or a fool would pick a stock at random and expect it to take off like a space ship from its launching pad. Certainly this has happened - about as often as a dime-store clerk has become a Hollywood star or a boy born in a log cabin has been elected President of the United States - just often enough, that is, to keep alive the Great American Dream.” Has BeensStatesEnoughDreamStarsPresidentBornSpaceUnitedBoysUnited StatesAliveHappenedFoolPicksHollywoodStoresShipsDreamerAmerican DreamDimesGreat AmericanClerksPadsCabinsLaunchingHollywood StarsLog Cabins Author:Catherine Crook de Camp
“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.” ThinkingI CanSelfStatesRememberHouseEasySpaceWhiteForgetUnitedCitiesUnited StatesCircumstancesOfficeWindowFortunateWhite HouseSelf Contained Book:President Wilson's Addresses Source: President Wilson's Addresses
“Hearing, seeing and understanding each other, humanity from one end of the earth to the other now lives simultaneously, omnipresent like a god thanks to its own creative ability. And, thanks to its victory over space and time, it would now be splendidly united for all time, if it were not confused again and again by that fatal delusion which causes humankind to keep on destroying this grandiose unity and to destroy itself with the same resources which gave it power over the elements.” IfsEndsEarthHumanityCausesUnderstandingAbilitySpaceUnitedCreativeSeeingVictoryElementsResourcesDestructionUnityHearingAll TimeThanksConfusedDelusionDestroyingHumankindAgain And AgainTime And SpaceGrandioseUnderstanding Each Other Author:Stefan Zweig
“Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only difference between a living and a dead body is, that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. When it is extinct or entirely latent, the molecules obey a superior attraction, which draws them asunder and scatters them through space. This dispersion must be death, if it is possible to conceive such a thing as death where the very molecules of the dead body manifest an intense vital energy.” IfsMenBodyEnergyForceDifferencesSpaceUnitedPrinciplesCasesDrawsRegardActiveAttractionIntenseSuperiorsMysteriousManifestAtomsMoleculesLatentDispersion Book:Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase) Source: Isis Unveiled: (Two Volumes in a Slipcase)
“There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it successful.” StatesSpaceUnitedUnited StatesSuccessfulPositionBearsPreparedBurdenOuter SpaceAffirmative Author:John F. Kennedy
“In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.” StatesLastsPresidentCommunitySpaceUnitedUnited StatesComedyGayJokesSacredDisasterCowsAcceptablePopeRidiculeThis SocietyChernobylSpace ShuttleBlowing UpGay CommunitySacred Cows Author:Sam Kinison