Stephen Hawking Quotes

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

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

We must become a space-faring nation.

There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.

I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft.

It's great that people are interested in Mars.

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

Britain should definitely be part of a Mars mission.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

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

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

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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 would just ask you for one moment to imagine what today would be like if we had built on that landing by creating a permanent and growing community there and moved on to Mars.

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it. I just can't stop reading about it or watching videos about it or listening to TED Talks about it.

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