Julie Payette Quotes

Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth .

The earth is the only home that any of us have—so far, anyway.

We imagine going to the moon and planting a flag, going to an asteroid and mining, going to Mars and setting up a colony. And I think that expansionist mentality is very self-destructive, especially given the kind of precarious relationship we now have to the ecosystem here on Earth, because it allows us to imagine that Earth is disposable.

You get out there in space and say to yourself: that's home. That's the only home we have, and the only one we're going to have for a long time

I left Earth three times and found no other place to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach.

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species.

This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.

For me, the Earth had always been a kind of a safe haven, you know, where I could go to work or be in my home or take my kids to school. But I realized it really wasn't that. It really is its own spaceship. And I had always been a space traveler.

You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.

Human uploads have such a natural advantage over present-day people in the environment of space, it's exceedingly unlikely flesh-and-blood beings will ever engage in interstellar travel.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

The more we know about life out there the easier it will be to improve life down here.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it's this world or nothing. That's a very powerful perception.

There is a history of thinking about space science from an environmental ethics perspective. And part of what I want to do is turn that back and use that experience to see if it reflects how we think about the Earth.

When I saw the Earth from above, personally, as a spacecraft operator, it certainly reinforced and drove home the fact that there's one place where we can live right now.

You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing.

'The Stars are Legion' is part space opera, part thriller, about two warring families battling it out for control over a legion of organic starships.

The training flow for the space station is a year-and-a-half to two years.

I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets.

New earths, new themes expect us.

If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home.