Space is for everybody. It’s not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts. That’s our new frontier out there, and it’s everybody’s business to know about space. Christa McAuliffe. To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen Hawking. If science ceases to be a rebellion against authority, then it does not deserve the talents of our brightest children. Freeman Dyson. It is clear that the early settlers in space will be exciting people: restless, inquiring, independent; quite possibly more hard-driving and possessed by more 'creative discontent' than their kin in the Old World. Gerard K. O'Neill.

The universe is not a stagnant place where technology stands still and only the few govern its destiny. R.G. Risch. Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Richard Feynman. The space age and the information age are forever. They collided on our watch. So this time, people not governments will steer the ships to the new world. Anonymous. As the research comes to the fore, jobs are created, my dream is that space become just another place to do business. Jeffrey Manber. When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I'm building infrastructure... so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space. Jeff Bezos.

NASA's next urgent mission should be to send good poets into space so they can describe what it's really like. Shannon Hale. When this blazing sun is gone, when he nothing shines upon... Jane Taylor. A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being? Carl Sagan. I love you sons of bitches... You're the only ones zany enough to agonize over time and distance without limit, over mysteries that will never die, over the fact that we are right now determining whether the space voyage for the next billion years or so is going to be Heaven or Hell. Eliot Rosewater.

Here to paradise they go, brighter made is their woe, as above, so below. Mr Bungle. The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. Larry Niven. I wonder how many dead one-planet civilizations are out there in the cosmos that never made it to the other planet and ultimately extinguished themselves or were destroyed by external factors. Probably a few. Elon Musk. When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon, I cried. Alan Shepard. I looked and looked but I didn’t see God. Yuri Gagarin. The more I examine the Universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the Universe in some sense must have known we were coming. Freeman Dyson.