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

"Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind."

Arthur C. Clarke, "What Is to Be Done?" in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 1992

Space Quotes to Ponder