Existence
“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez,
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Bowie explaining how rock was once subversive but now it’s safe. The Internet is the new subversive.
As I stand out here in the wonders of the unknown at Hadley, I sort of realize there’s a fundamental truth to our nature, Man must explore . . . and this is exploration at its greatest.
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
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That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center — an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
To go places and do things that have never been done before – that’s what living is all about.
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
The path of a cosmonaut is not an easy, triumphant march to glory. You have to get to know the meaning not just of joy but also of grief, before being allowed in the spacecraft cabin.
Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination.
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Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center — an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
We want to explore. We’re curious people. Look back over history, people have put their lives at stake to go out and explore … We believe in what we’re doing. Now it’s time to go.
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Spaceflights cannot be stopped. This is not the work of any one man or even a group of men. It is a historical process which mankind is carrying out in accordance with the natural laws of human development.
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
Failure is not an option.
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The sky is the limit only for those who aren't afraid to fly!
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.
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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win.
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Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the qualities of a globe, a round earth in which all the directions eventually meet, in which there is no center because every point, or none, is center — an equal earth which all men occupy as equals. The airman's earth, if free men make it, will be truly round: a globe in practice, not in theory.
Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science. The early warnings about technological dangers also come from science.
The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that man set foot on the Moon but that they set eye on the earth.
That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
Buy why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may as well ask why climb the highest mountain?
Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.