Our Future: Will it be a Space Age or a Stone Age?

"There is no way back into the past; the choice, as Wells once said, is the universe--or nothing. Though men and civilizations may yearn for rest, for the dream of the lotus-eaters, that is a desire that merges imperceptibly into death. The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous one; but if we fail to meet it, the story of our race will be drawing to its close."

Arthur C. Clarke, Interplanetary Flight, 1950

Space Quotes to Ponder