Peter Diamandis Quotes

Ever since I saw the moon landing as a young teenager, I was determined I would go into space one day.

It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

There are many in the field of cosmology, who believe as I do, that finding ways to travel great distances will be essential to keeping human kind alive in an aging universe.

I believed that once we got to the Moon, there was no stopping us. But in fact, we did stop.

I know you're all saying I can go to the moon but I can't find Pasadena.

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back. That's not the purpose of this program... Space is a laboratory, and we go into it to work and learn the new.

Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon.

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

Most people never believed in the real possibility of going to the moon, and neither did I until I was in my twenties.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including paying each other.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

We believe SpaceX will become the world leader in space transport, and we want our investors to be part of that future.

I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.

Having walked on the Moon, I know something about what we need to explore, really explore, in space.

I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.