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

"The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in."

Robert Heinlein

Space Quotes to Ponder

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

"When the history of our galaxy is written, and for all any of us know it may already have been, if Earth gets mentioned at all it won't be because its inhabitants visited their own moon. That first step, like a newborn's cry, would be automatically assumed. What would be worth recording is what kind of civilization we earthlings created and whether or not we ventured out to other parts of the galaxy."

Astronaut Michael Collins, Liftoff, 1988

Space Quotes to Ponder

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

"Either way, through ignorance or consciousness, planetary exploration has forced us to recognize the challenge of how we will balance population, fossil resources, sustainable resources, and consumerist economies over the next 50 and 100 years, and through what socioeconomic frameworks we will eventually expand our culture beyond Earth."

Dr. William K. Hartmann, The Planetary Science Institute, 2004

Impact of Space Activities upon Society

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

"It may take endless wars and unbearable population pressure to force-feed a technology to the point where it can cope with space. In the universe, space travel may be the normal birth pangs of an otherwise dying race. A test. Some races pass, some fail."

Robert Heinlein, I Will Fear No Evil, 1970

Space Quotes to Ponder