Fred Hoyle Quotes

I've always been interested in the idea of space exploration. When I was younger it was just a dream, but the theory of rockets being able to travel through space was very much alive. I found it very exciting.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

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.

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

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

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

I would enjoy flying to Mars. This was the dream of the first cosmonauts. I wish I could realize it! I am ready to fly without coming back.

I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.

When we meet people who are astronauts or deal in astronomy, it's always really fascinating.

I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do.

Up in space we don't have a huge wardrobe.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

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.

Planets look about the same here as they do to you on the Earth because we really aren't that much closer. Our home, the International Space Station, orbits around the Earth at about 200 miles.

We have spent billions to go to the moon - we go to this lesser satellite called the moon and say we are in space, but we are in space right now; we just don't feel ourselves to be in space. Some forms of art and some forms of spirituality do give us that sense.

I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.