Paul Davies Quotes

Buzz Aldrin doesn't think we need to go back to the Moon - that we should go straight on to Mars. I'm more on the side that says we should go back to the Moon. I think there's a lot we can utilise the Moon for scientifically.

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

For the new century, back to the moon, back to the future and this time back to stay. And then a journey into tomorrow, a journey to another planet, a manned mission to Mars.

People keep talking about how we have to go to Mars. We may want to go to Mars sometime.

Will we have a colony on Mars? I think so.

We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map.

In Mars, we've been given a wonderful set of moons... where we can send continuous numbers of people.

If humanity doesn't land on Mars in my lifetime, I would be very disappointed.

'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

Every couple of years, we could dispatch people from Earth to Mars.

I was motivated to improve the U.S. strategy of going back to the moon in 1985. That's a long time ago. Going back to the moon would be a great achievement for tourism adventure flights.

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.

We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars.

Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

I was thinking as a little girl growing up that I would be there. When I look at whether we can go to Mars, it's definitely something we can do.

I'm trying to get to Mars before everyone else.

When I was a kid, I was reliably informed that we'd have gone to Mars by 1985, and of course it's 2012, and we're still really no closer to a human expedition to Mars, but that shouldn't detract from the amazing achievements that are being done on a day-to-day basis by robotic envoys.

Going to Mars would make NASA great again.

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

It's not a matter of if we're going to go to Mars, it's a matter of when.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!