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

"I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point of its planetary habitat combined with a certain level of technological ability... I think it is a built-in gene-directed drive for the spreading of the species and its continuation."

Donald A. Wollheim, The Universe Makers, 1971

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

"Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only be described as extremely fragile, endangered by forces of nature currently beyond our control, our own mistakes, and other branches of the wildly blossoming tree itself. Looked at this way, we can then pose the question of the future of humanity on Earth, in the solar system, and in the galaxy from the standpoint of both evolutionary biology and human nature. The conclusion is straightforward: Our choice is to grow, branch, spread and develop, or stagnate and die."

Robert Zubrin, Entering Space, 1999

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

"We are at the stage of the flower bud, not the bloom; the pregnant woman, not the newborn. In this stage we represent only the potential for the extension of life into the cosmos, with no guarantee that we will succeed. Humanity is the means by which evolution has determined achieve its end... Not to act in building civilizations beyond this planet is quite literally to go against the very demand of the universe. If we are resolved to participate in this effort, we must be willing to get very close to the evolutionary tension throbbing within us, and boldly act in accordance with it."

Steven Wolfe, Ad Astra, 2004

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

"The earth is the cradle of humankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever."

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, 1895

Space Quotes to Ponder