Schweickart Space Quotes

#1. It is fantastic to think that one day we may be able to access fuel, materials and even water in space instead of digging deeper and deeper into our planet for what we need and then dragging it all up into orbit, against Earth's gravity.

Rusty Schweickart

#2. If you're not going to speak up, How is the world supposed to know you exist?

Anonymous

#3. Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

George Oppen

#4. It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

Rusty Schweickart

#5. You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

Rusty Schweickart

#6. We have the capability - physically, technically - to protect the Earth from asteroid impacts. We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

Rusty Schweickart

#7. Love and loss," he said, "are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.

V.E Schwab

#8. Sometimes good fortune is just having fewer messed-up things happening to you.

Colson Whitehead

#9. The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.

Rusty Schweickart

#10. And opportunities are like stories in books," I retorted. "All we need do is pick one.

C.W. Gortner

#11. So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.

Rusty Schweickart

#12. I am a daylight atheist.

Brendan Behan

#13. To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn't permit a middle road.

Sukarno

#14. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies.

Rusty Schweickart

#15. Passwords are like underwear: you don't let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn't share it with strangers.

Chris Pirillo

#16. A lucky man, I've always said, is a man who was lucky once, and after that, he learned a thing or two about investment. Luck only happens once and it's always an accident when it does. (Dick Mannering
19th century New Zealand goldfields magnate)

Eleanor Catton

#17. If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

Jimmy Carter

#18. It seemed to him that every time he made one choice in his life, he said no to another. All of those things he could not do or be were huddled inside of him; they might spring up at any moment, and he would be hobbled with regret.

Ayana Mathis